{"id":188554,"date":"2010-09-04T05:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/04\/i-am-not-sure-if-this-flies-or-if-its-just-so-ugly-that-it-repels-the-ground\/"},"modified":"2010-09-04T05:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T10:36:00","slug":"i-am-not-sure-if-this-flies-or-if-its-just-so-ugly-that-it-repels-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/04\/i-am-not-sure-if-this-flies-or-if-its-just-so-ugly-that-it-repels-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Not Sure if This Flies, or if It&#8217;s Just So Ugly That it Repels the Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/a.imageshack.us\/img547\/2829\/getasset.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a.imageshack.us\/img547\/2829\/getasset.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>You have to credit the Russian aircraft designers, this  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2010\/08\/27\/346762\/russian-researchers-study-elliptical-fuselage-ekojet.html\">eleptical fuselage transport aircraft<\/a>, dubbed &#8216;EkoJet&#8217;, appears to be an interesting way of looking at how to get a large number of people on and off an aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>But man, it is one <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">fugly<\/span> bird.<\/p>\n<p>The designers claim that the aircraft can carry as many passengers as the Il-86 (around 350 in an all coach configuration), but that it would weigh 80 tons less, or about 40% less than the IL-86&#8217;s 217t MTOW, which I simply don&#8217;t find credible.<\/p>\n<p>The problems with the Il-86 were always its propulsion, not its structure, and a 40% weight savings seems to violate the laws of physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have to credit the Russian aircraft designers, this eleptical fuselage transport aircraft, dubbed &#8216;EkoJet&#8217;, appears to be an interesting way of looking at how to get a large number of people on and off an aircraft. But man, it is one fugly bird. The designers claim that the aircraft can carry as many passengers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1033,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-russia","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}