NASA backs X plane development of twin hull Aurora D8 airliner. In February, NASA announced that it wanted to use its New Aviation Horizons program to revive the famed X plane that did so much to advance post war aviation. Now the agency has awarded a six month US2. Manassas, Virginia based Aurora Flight Sciences to develop a scaled demonstration version of its Aurora D8 subsonic commercial airliner. Described as changing the paradigm, the D8 is designed to significantly improve airliner performance by 2. According to Aurora, the D8 takes its inspiration from the famed Boeing 7. Boeing/767/767PW-300ER_Livery%20BA.jpg' alt='X-Plane 9 Planes' title='X-Plane 9 Planes' />The first commercially successful jetliner, its swept back wings, in wing fuel tanks, and pylon mounted engines set the standard so that essentially, all modern commercial airliners are derivations of the 7. Nuendo 5 Full Crack. Unfortunately, Aurora contends that the 7. The D8 is designed to avoid this problem by recreating the 7. Auroras work on NASAs N3 Program to produce advanced concepts for subsonic and supersonic commercial transport aircraft. The resulting D8, named after its chief designer Mark Drela, takes a step forward in airliner design by taking a step backwards. Instead of a narrow fuselage, the D8 uses a double bubble fuselage made of two conjoined hulls similar to that on the old Boeing 3. Stratocruiser of the 1. Only in this case, the twin hulls have been laid on their side to make a very wide twin aisle fuselage. This design not only provides much more interior room than a 7. Of all the pretenders to the throne, perhaps the biggest is XPlane from Laminar Research, now in its tenth edition. The chances are that unless youre a fan. An active community site containing a store, forum, a wide selection of downloads and game information including tutorials. XPL-110f.jpg' alt='X-Plane 9 Planes' title='X-Plane 9 Planes' />Along with composite materials, smaller, embedded high bypass engines at the rear of the fuselage that improve thrust efficiency due to Boundary Layer Ingestion BLI, the new fuselage saves weight by allowing for smaller wings and reduces drag by combining fuselage wake and engine thrust. Aurora says that the D8 is designed to fly at Mach 0. The company also says the design has the potential to cut fuel burn by 7. Airbus_A380_engine_mounts.jpg' alt='X-Plane 9 Planes' title='X-Plane 9 Planes' />EPNd. B, and cut LTO NOx emissions by 8. Boeing 7. 37 8. 00 narrow body aircraft. As part of the NASA contract, Aurora will build test components as the company develops a 1 2 scale demonstrator X plane over the next three years. Aurora says that the D8 could enter commercial service by 2. Source View gallery 5 images.