MIT boffins debut fuel-saving "double bubble" aircraft design

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Researchers claim space-age design could cut aviation industry fuel use by up to 70 per cent

Is it a bird, is it a plane? Well kind of, it's the latest development in green aviation and it looks rather like something from the Jetsons. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

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