Monday, November 06, 2006





'Silent aircraft': How it works

Engineers from the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have unveiled a radical design for a "silent aircraft".

The team says any noise from the concept aircraft, known as the SAX-40, would be "imperceptible" beyond the boundaries of an airport. It would also burn far less fuel than conventional planes.


Could technology of this sort explain some reports of massive, silent "flying triangles"?

(Hat tip: Mondolithic Sketchbook.)

2 comments:

Greg Bishop said...

I saw an article in an aviaiton magazine last year about huge, triangular lighter-than-air craft that were being tested and used as surveillance and intelligence-gathering platforms. There were pictures and everything. I should have bought the damn thing. It could explain SOME (not all) flying triangle reports.

wildone_106 said...

I seriously doubt those things your talking about could be mistaken for what has been described countless times. for one thing they are still using convential technology (turbo fans or jet engines) and thus still manouver in conventional manner most likely with alot of noise. And secondly if its recent it does'nt explain masses of sightings in earlier years.

In any case, this quieter plane design is all pie in the sky, still using jet engines & I cant see any mass carrier adopting such a "wacky" design, they are all signing up for the new airbus & boeing..very convential altho bigger..still very boring. Thats the future of air travel for the next 30+ years..