Airbus SE unveiled a model of a sleek, falcon-like jet with rear-mounted twin engines that would look at home in the Star Wars movies.
The two-meter demonstrator model, displayed at the Singapore Air Show on Tuesday, features a so-called blended-wing body that’s designed to reduce fuel consumption.
Airbus test-flew the model, which is dubbed Maveric, in June last year in France and will continue flights into the second quarter of 2020, the Toulouse-based planemaker said.
“We need these demonstrators to evaluate the potential as viable and safe feature projects,” said Jean-Brice Dumont, executive vice president of engineering at Airbus. “We need these breakthroughs, these technologies to meet our environmental challenge.”
