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Brief Description:

The Auckun 1A1-6 Superliner is the world's newest commercial jet. It is equipped with the all-new features to pleasure passengers. It's wing and structure are optimized for flights of shorter range. Using 19 percent less fuel than any other airplane of its size, this new jetliner will bring large jets to the middle market.

Seating:

290 passengers in two-class configuration


Range:

3,700 nautical miles (6,900 km)


Configuration:

Twin aisle


Cross Section:

226 inches (584 centimeters)


Wing Span:

165-170 feet (50-52 meters)


Length:

184 feet (56 meters)


Cruise Speed:

Mach .97


Cargo Capacity After Passenger Bags:

5 pallets + 5 LD3s

The Auckun 1A1-6 Superliner is on sale for commercial use. The current asking price for the Auckun 1A1-6 Superliner is currently at USD $200 Million for each plane.

Just out of curiousity, how does it accomplish such fuel savings while flying in the transsonic regime?

Just out of curiousity, how does it accomplish such fuel savings while flying in the transsonic regime?


The primary structure's majority will be made up of composite materials, including the wing and fuselage. We've also installed a new system called "H-Tech" which will allow the Superliners to monitor themselves for maintenance requirements and report them to ground control computers. Newly developed engines have been introduced to allow for greater efficiency. New advances in engine technology are expected to contribute up to as much as 8 percent of the increased efficiency of our new airplane.

The primary structure's majority will be made up of composite materials, including the wing and fuselage. We've also installed a new system called "H-Tech" which will allow the Superliners to monitor themselves for maintenance requirements and report them to ground control computers. Newly developed engines have been introduced to allow for greater efficiency. New advances in engine technology are expected to contribute up to as much as 8 percent of the increased efficiency of our new airplane.

What about the engines is so new that you can get that kind of dramatically increased efficiency? And what is "H-Tech" exactly and how does it contribute to greater fuel economy?

What about the engines is so new that you can get that kind of dramatically increased efficiency? And what is "H-Tech" exactly and how does it contribute to greater fuel economy?


Take a car engine for example. The engines are built to consume less fuel, yet at the same time increase the distance one can travel. Plus newer car engines also provide more power with that fuel effiency, correct? Well, our new engines work in a similar way.

Now H-Tech is a system that performs routine checks on the Superliner, while it is in flight. It makes it possible to find any errors which may maintenance. This system contributes to a greater fuel economy in plenty of ways. Not only does H-Tech monitor the electronics of the plane, it monitors the direction, velocity, tilt, room temperature, pressure, and even fuel levels. Each of the gauges are connected to H-Tech. This allows the system to monitor the amount of fuel in use. If a leak should occur, H-Tech will detect the leak and notify ground control and the crew inside the cockpit.

Take a car engine for example. The engines are built to consume less fuel, yet at the same time increase the distance one can travel. Plus newer car engines also provide more power with that fuel effiency, correct? Well, our new engines work in a similar way.

You're still describing the end result and not the process by which that result is obtained. i.e. handwaving.

Now H-Tech is a system that performs routine checks on the Superliner, while it is in flight. It makes it possible to find any errors which may maintenance. This system contributes to a greater fuel economy in plenty of ways. Not only does H-Tech monitor the electronics of the plane, it monitors the direction, velocity, tilt, room temperature, pressure, and even fuel levels. Each of the gauges are connected to H-Tech. This allows the system to monitor the amount of fuel in use. If a leak should occur, H-Tech will detect the leak and notify ground control and the crew inside the cockpit.

Detailed monitoring of an aircraft's status is fairly standard on modern jet aircraft. What exactly about this monitoring is better than what already exists to make it more fuel efficient? If anything, such a monitoring system would be used to verify fuel economy... not create it. Good maintenance will make a plane run better, but what specifically makes this aircraft - as a system - on average 19 percent more fuel efficient than its competitors?

You're still describing the end result and not the process by which that result is obtained. i.e. handwaving.



Detailed monitoring of an aircraft's status is fairly standard on modern jet aircraft. What exactly about this monitoring is better than what already exists to make it more fuel efficient? If anything, such a monitoring system would be used to verify fuel economy... not create it. Good maintenance will make a plane run better, but what specifically makes this aircraft - as a system - on average 19 percent more fuel efficient than its competitors?


Perhaps the H-Tech runs checks for the maintenance crew to cut down the time needed to checks and stuff, since it's on constant alert.

[ACS, you're becoming anal retentive. I doubt he's an aircraft engineer and thus is incapable of explaining the system in the detail you seem to be demanding. Personally I think it seems somewhat plausible. If you agree, say so and leave it alone. If you don't, IGNORE it and still leave it alone.]

Perhaps the H-Tech runs checks for the maintenance crew to cut down the time needed to checks and stuff, since it's on constant alert.

How does that improve fuel economy while it's flying, though? That's when it burns the vast majority of its fuel.

[ACS, you're becoming anal retentive. I doubt he's an aircraft engineer and thus is incapable of explaining the system in the detail you seem to be demanding. Personally I think it seems somewhat plausible. If you agree, say so and leave it alone. If you don't, IGNORE it and still leave it alone.]

I'm simply engaging in a Socratic dialogue of sorts to encourage him to better describe the system (or at least say that there is handwaving going on). If you're going to make this personal, though, then I'll drop it.

[There's nothing personal about it. I simply believe that he's put enough detail into the system given his no doubt limited skills in this particular area.]

[There's nothing personal about it. I simply believe that he's put enough detail into the system given his no doubt limited skills in this particular area.]

Then why did you bring this out in the open? If you have a problem with the way I ask people questions, wouldn't that be better suited for a PM or something?

Lexustralany: I do apologize for any derailment of your thread this has caused. I just felt it necessary to defend my positions since I was called out on it. There is no offense intended in my queries.

It would be nice if he gave a better description, but not everyone builds jetliners. The description is good enough as it is. If you even look at Boeing, they don't give you every little detail. They give you a summed up description.