Airbus has never shied away from a challenge, always trying to push the envelope to be innovative, inventive and bringing solutions future generations need. It is this attitude that saw them becoming a huge player in a market previously dominated by Boeing and McDonell Douglas. It also saw them creating the new behemoth of the skies, the Airbus A380.
The largest commercial aircraft in the skies today by some margin, I might add, it signalled a new chapter in aviation. It fully started the age of a fuel efficient long haul aircraft. Soon after, Boeing followed suit with its Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. These new machines have the most fuel efficient engines the industry has seen and it even prompted these companies to fit these engines to some existing aircraft in their fleet.
Airbus says it isn‘t going to rest on their laurels, though. They are looking to the future for even more innovative ideas and concepts. Recently they launched their “˜smarter skies‘ campaign, an effort to make commercial planes more efficient than ever before. They aim to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by half and ensure shorter flight times by 2050. They aim to do the latter not necessarily by flying faster, but by flying shorter, more efficient routes. Among their other ideas are flying a fleet in formation (like a flock of birds) to reduce drag and thus increase fuel consumption.
Check out some of the ideas in their video below, and let us know what you think in the comments.
Source: Engadget
