Thursday, May 17, 2012

Innovative commercial aircraft does not need runway

The world seems fixated on aircraft design. Turbines pushing air backwards, wheels designed for safe landing on runways. The conventional design needs long runways that are expensive to acquire, develop and maintain. Passenger risk is higher with conventional design, and people are praying to God while landing.
Think out of the box, to design a commercial aircraft that can land vertically down (aircraft remaining horizontal during landing) with well controlled descent using some unconventonal techniques that I can imagine.
This is a global design challenge !
Let us see who moves faster in this direction