Passenger plane no louder than a washing machine will use 25 percent less fuel
Dave Demerjian
Nov. 26, 2006

Researchers have unveiled design plans for a passenger plane they claim will be no louder than a washing machine and will use 25 percent less fuel than current jetliners. Some environmentalists and aviation enthusiasts are hailing the futuristic jet as the most important commercial aviation development in the last half century, but don''t book your tickets yet -- it could be decades before this plane takes flight. Dubbed the SAX-40, the new plane was developed by a consortium of scientists, academics and aviation companies that include Boeing, UPS and BAA, the company that runs Britain's airports. The project was led by the Cambridge-MIT Institute, or CMI, a joint venture between the two universities funded by the British government.

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