Incredible Planes From The Future (PHOTOS)

How will flying as we know it look in the future? Imagine a personal plane that fits one person only, or jets that fly by flapping their wings.

According to these incredible concepts for the planes of the future, the next generation of air travel is likely to be more comfortable, more eco-friendly, quieter, and more personal than every before.

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The NASA Solar Flapper is an unconventional concept for a plane that would use solar power and flapping of the aircraft's "wings" to propel itself up and forward. One blog writes, "This flight vehicle would integrate airfoil, propulsion, energy production, energy storage, and control into one seamless design with no conventional mechanical moving parts."

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The NASA Solar Flapper is an unconventional concept for a plane that would use solar power and flapping of the aircraft's "wings" to propel itself up and forward. One blog writes, "This flight vehicle would integrate airfoil, propulsion, energy production, energy storage, and control into one seamless design with no conventional mechanical moving parts."

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[Lee Wells]

07:24 PM on 09/26/2010

HMM
Let's see now we are at peak oil right now, we have NO plans for alternative energy to take the place of oil so our present economic system will remain intact. Yet we will magically build these aircraft with the existing oil based infrastructure. (with no oil to run it)
Yep they are invisible, we will never have the energy to build them, because we will be 'wasting' all the available energy to feed ourselves.

[Spazoid-droid]

10:38 PM on 09/18/2010

well a few of these might make it. the 1st plane is a joke right? imagine turning your car into a plane to get past a traffic jam? um it aint never gona work in a big city haha.

[DharmaRecruit]

09:06 AM on 09/18/2010

Some of these are really nifty looking, but the first one? "Honey, look! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a... gigantic flying tapeworm."

[thestargazer]

02:44 AM on 09/18/2010

Some of these don't even look flight worthy unless there's a level of physics that we don't know of yet?

[Heavenhound]

09:55 PM on 09/17/2010

These things never change. Concept aircraft from the 1950s looked remarkably similar. Nothing like them ever comes close to realization.

[hbhawaii]

03:50 PM on 09/17/2010

"Luxury Blimp" sounds like my late lamented 1972 Coupe de Ville.

[JackTheSkipper]

07:56 PM on 08/16/2010

Like we laugh at Devinci's machines, people who live in year 3000 will laugh at our designs.

[hbhawaii]

03:49 PM on 09/17/2010

Who's laughing at DaVinci?

[Heavenhound]

10:04 PM on 09/17/2010

I am. It's a little-known fact that he killed at parties. His catchphrase, "Hey, Mona, who's your daddy?" (É Mona, chi è il tuo papà?) swept the caffes of Venice in 1483.

[Cindy Fogle]

12:48 PM on 08/13/2010

I designed on of those novel space shuttles years ago, and nobody had the money to fund it.

[JackTheSkipper]

07:54 PM on 08/16/2010

You can't get funding for origami.

[Angelus2007]

03:56 PM on 08/03/2010

There were only 3 I could see variations of. The 2 MIT versions, as long as they are not too wide, if they are too wide could be hard to use at existing airports. Then the most likely is the Airbus version, first off since they already make planes, this makes sense and it is the most "plane" like. Those are the only 3 that seem commercially viable. The rest are either neat to look at or more novelties. A person plane? Neat, but not commercial enough.

Plus...it isn't a Luxury Blimp....It is a Rigid Airship.

[JScott]

11:09 AM on 08/03/2010

So what about way in the future when we can just be beamed to where we want to go ala Star Trek.

[lenuk]

07:56 AM on 08/03/2010

So. No replacement for the Concorde any time soon?

[ar6557]

06:12 AM on 08/03/2010

can't even see the pictures with the captions in the way. (mobile)

[lockDown]

03:19 AM on 08/03/2010

Which one doesn't crash and burn? I'm still waiting for the airplane made out of that black box material.

[sheoples]

02:06 AM on 08/03/2010

haven't we had this before? vehicles of the "future" that NEVER come to fruition???

what a complete waste of time.

[Marc NL]

06:05 PM on 08/04/2010

"According to these incredible concepts for the planes of the future, the next generation of air travel is likely to be more comfortable, more eco-friendly, quieter, and more personal than every before."

You do know what "concept" means right?

[Marc NL]

08:37 PM on 08/04/2010

"According to these incredible concepts for the planes of the future, the next generation of air travel is likely to be more comfortable, more eco-friendly, quieter, and more personal than every before."

Look up "concept"

[Chris Burgess]

02:00 AM on 08/03/2010

Some look good. Some of them, I hope don't get off the ground.