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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Its a fuel-efficient jet [1]

Washington: Airplanes may soon start looking like birds as scientists are pondering over redesigning the current airplanes to make them more fuel-efficient.
Geoffrey Spedding, an engineer at the University of Southern California, and Joachim Huyssen at Northwest University in South Africa have made a simple modular aircraft in three configurations: a flying wing alone, then wings plus body, a

Publication Date: 
23/11/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
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Air Transport [3], Scientists [4], Research [5], Fuel Efficiency [6]
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