Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Would YOU Fly as a PASSENGER In This FLYING WING?" video.

  1. Great points about how a flying wing design could work with the existing infrastructure. Airports, maintenance facilities and manufacturing technologies have been optimized for existing designs and flying wing design would need to be obviously superior to offset all the changes needed to support infrastructure. Otherwise, the changes needed to switch to flying wing couldn't be re-payed in any reasonable timeframe. That would make total cost of ownership of the flying wing less economical in long run. I'd expect the overall tubular design to stay in production but the blending near the are where the wings are connected to fuselage will be probably streamlined a bit.
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  2.  @kell7195  I hate the fact the bean counters are making the decisions, too, but never underestimate the inertia of the society at large. Many people are more conservative than they think and any kind of change (good or bad) is hard to accomplish fast.
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