{"id":1417,"date":"2020-09-06T13:18:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T13:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2020-09-07T10:36:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T10:36:19","slug":"is-the-fuel-saving-flying-v-airplane-the-future-of-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/is-the-fuel-saving-flying-v-airplane-the-future-of-aviation\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Fuel-Saving Flying-V Airplane the Future of Aviation?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Researchers and engineers from the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) recently conducted a successful test flight of an energy-efficient Flying-V aircraft.<\/p>\n
Together with a drone pilot operator, the team went to a German airbase on September 1st for the first real test flight of the scaled model designed by university researchers and funded by Dutch airline KLM.<\/p>\n
After KLM\u2019s announcement of the Flying-V project last year, the scaled aircraft model underwent a period of extensive wind tunnel testing and a series of ground tests in the Netherlands before it was approved to perform a test flight this summer.<\/p>\n
Project leader Dr. Roelof Vos led his team of researchers and engineers as they took the 22.5-kilogram and 3-meter wide scale model of the Flying-V for flight tests in a well-guarded airbase in Germany, where they could work together with a team from Airbus.<\/p>\n
The drone pilot\u2019s task was to take-off and fly a number of test maneuvers and approaches until the batteries were nearly empty and land.<\/p>\n