An airplane with wings that we all know today annular wing Can you imagine what could happen? Maybe we can’t even imagine it and don’t know what it looks like, but such a design was developed years ago.

The one who tried this strange design Bell Riot plane It was the French with . But why have we never seen a plane with ring wings soaring in the sky? Well, even when we saw it, we couldn’t believe our eyes!

Lockheed, an aerospace company, designed this ring wing as a commercial aircraft.

The aircraft was designed in gigantic dimensions in the 1980s. It would be 52 meters long and have a wing circumference of 7.4 meters.. The wing would be attached to the fuselage at a mid-low point and bent back 27 degrees to reach the tail, to a height of 75 feet.

Don’t think that people designed this to bring about change. Because the most striking feature of this design is potential fuel efficiency had to provide.

This huge plane With a capacity for up to 120 passengers stood out and seemed perfectly suited to suburban routes, especially routes that don’t require high altitude.

These annular wings, While it appeared to function like traditional wings, it was also expected to provide unique benefits. One of these benefits was that the wing created more lift, allowing it to land on shorter runways, using less fuel and being minimally affected by the wind.

But this design encountered several difficulties.

Obtained from the increased lift force in the aircraft save fuel Increased parasite resistance was a problem. This neutralized the savings. It was realized that meticulous engineering was needed to avoid these problems.

Seems very different from conventional aircraft types ring wing designOf course it was both risky and expensive. There were investors who were hesitant to support the project, even an example of which had not yet been realized. This situation made financing the project very difficult.

So what could be the reasons why this design fails?

Normal stabilize an airplane While steering and steering requires solving a seemingly simple but very complex structure, can you imagine the controls of these unusual aircraft?

Since ring-wing aircraft have a more complex structure, great difficulties were encountered in production and engineering. Material selection, production processes and structural sustainability Such factors increased costs and obviously prevented the widespread implementation of this design.

The high cost of ring-wing aircraft was also a reason why they would not be very useful.

In the civil aviation industry, compliance with safety standards is also of great importance. ring wing aircraft The process of meeting these standards may have complicated their adoption.

Watch On a regular airplane?If they asked the audience if we would like to ride in a plane with wings, I’m sure we would all give the same answer!

This design, which we have never seen in the air and may only be seen in a movie scene for now, is with increasing innovations in aviation history and now that the obstacles have been overcome, it will one day be implemented. Maybe then we’ll get a chance to meet them in the sky.

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