This Is Airbus’s Plan To Replace The A320

What happens if one of these open turbo-fan jet blades breaks loose? Since they'll probably made out of carbon-fiber, and going faster than the old prop blades they could slice through the fuselage if one broke loose. Right now the jet engine cowl will contain the break-away blade, there are tests for that with engine certifications.

The unducted fan has a place but it is most effficient at speeds and altitudes beween the turboprop and conventional fanjet zones.

The A320 doesn’t need a replacement for at least the next 20 years

Этот двигатель будет очень шумный

We should let Airbus build the next air force 1 and forget just make them build it in the USA. Boeing desperately needs competition.

I doubt any passengers that fly are suffering from “environmental guilt”, just another leftoid Greta Thumberg stomping rant.

Fuel efficiency is great, but the CO2 "climate" scare is BS and believing that is why the UK and EU are going down the toilet.

Thermoplastic - you're toast if there's a mid-air fire. External props means lower top speed so longer flights. Prop tips shouldn't exceed the speed of sound (rotary + linear velocity). Lower speeds almost equate to better fuel efficiency ? Just go with (or go back to) 4 engine turboprops.

It's a commercial.

Boeing is already incorporating a folding wingtip with the 777X...? so how is this revolutionary?

New channel of lies 😡, bad beginning , all false information, nobody like to subscribe to a channels like this

Thermoplastics... plastic composite more sustainable than aluminium? Really?

Airliners built from recycled material? Yeah I think I'll stay on the ground.

Despite all this "hype", I saw this design on some Boeing DC80s in the 1990s. While fuel consumption was way better, issues like fan blades exceeding the speed of sound, vibration and a potential for the un-enclosed blades slicing through the fuselage in the event of an engine failure stopped that development cold. We'll see if Airbus (or Boeing) overcomes these drawbacks going forward.

These days, I'm happier when I see an A3XX on the routes I have to fly for work destinations. I just trust Airbus more than Boeing these days

the CO2 concern is so stupid and fony. just stop the nonsense. please just stop. zero carbon footprint means, "you need to stop breathing" it is a depopulation agenda. quit being so dumb and drumming your march to your own early grave.

Isn't CO2 plant food?

I’m sure these improvements will yield lower prices and increased comfort for livestock- er, I mean passengers. 🙄

If the A320 is the "best-selling airliner in history", why do I see almost nothing but 737s on approach into Denver International Airport (DIA)? I live in an approach corridor and marvel at how few other aircraft I observe.

Is there any move to modify airports so that they can accept planes with longer wings?

I've heard they are training AIs to croak down the PA and give largely irrelevant information in obsolete measurements that are used only in 3 irrelevant countries to passengers that are not listening.
The world of tomorrow!

This is the usual semi-hysterical rubbish, where Plane Curious uncritically accepts everything Airbus says. Can't you tell the difference between real plans and press releases designed to drum up publicity for the brand? I guarantee that in 2040 airplanes will look exactly like they do now, with incrementally better gas turbine engines and greater use of composite materials responsible for all improvements in efficiency. Propfans have been around for 40 years. The Antonov 70 uses them, but no one is buying. You know why? Passengers are conservative and it will take decades to persuade them this is not just a turboprop. You talk about the new aircraft 'gliding' 'during cruise'. Do you know anything about aerodynamics?

As of April 2025, a total of 12,014 A320 family aircraft have been delivered, and 19,234 have been ordered. This includes various variants within the A320 family, such as the A318, A319, A320, A321, and A320neo family.

Man that just really doesn't LOOK futuristic or more of a step back in engine design... HOW will those fan blades be protected without pods?

I love how back in the day they had this idea but didn’t follow thought and how are they now gonna be quiet they were loud then and they will be now too due to the open blades good luck and to be honest it won’t make as much power that’s why it will burn less fuel

nothing can replace the a320

I don't buy that the new engine will work on the new wing designs.... I will have to see it, cause the engine is much wider than the current engines, so much so that you would not be able to retrofit an existing air-frame with it.

Nobody cares about "carbon emissions," we don't have "environmental guilt," we don't care about climate cult babble.

A couple of points. The engine tech shown has both a gearbox and blade pitch control. Kind of difficult to make a propeller thrust reverser without one. The gearbox makes just about any jet engine more efficient. Composite air-frames will not be recyclable anytime in the mid future if at all anytime. You can always turn aluminum air-frames into beer cans. Composites do make aircraft considerably lighter however.

A bigger change than the usual update? Sure.

"Fundamentally different?" No.

"Change dramatically?" No.

Unducted engine won't be adopted.

One needs to reinforce the structure to protect the fuselage from a bladeout event.

I think airlines will start with a blended SAF, going 100% SAF is too risky. However for short trips we may see this first. If Jet fuel rises in price so will the SAF blend (depending on the whether SAF is more expensive). By the Mid 2030s we may see US cites for short routes mostly HSR. Its already happening in Europe and lots of that traffic in CHina is now on HSR (and Japan for alot longer). That means smaller aircraft will be for crossing oceans or mountain ranges. Boeing has already shown foldable wings so thats a given. Whether humans can remain healthy on long haul narrow body flights is unknown as experience is low. The blended wing much like the US stealth bombers is another idea if interior screens can offset the claustrophobia. Whats envisaged here is a theoretical 30% drop in fuel burn with new engines but these engines are at present not going ton appear on big planes.

Unsubbed for clickbait thumbnail , everyone is doing that now .

This aircraft kind of looks like if Airbus made the A320neoneo I swear

Google says - A 3,000-mile round-trip flight (like one from Boston to London and back) emits approximately one ton of CO2 per passenger. About 3 million people fly every day in and out of U.S. airports,....... so 1/3 to 2/3 of a day savings for the fleet when deployed?

So... a turboprop...

The democrat's dream.

Wont it be slower?

With no cowl to contain a failure, you'll be praying that the blades don't detach and impale the passengers if you have a bird strike...

Russian Tu-95 bomber has same design, how old, now? 1975??

Meanwhile the americans are innovating new ways to fail at Boeing

So basically a variation of a turboprop... which have been flying for many decades.

The most important should be safety of the passengers. In case of emergency how to save the people’s lives.

slighly confused here "the albatross inspired airbus..." wasn't the first plane to be "inspired by the albatross" the dreamliner?
also didn't boeing study the 7J7 that had propfann cfm rise engines? seems airbus is a great copycat NOTHING that they've come out with has een something "original"
"Boeing engineers studied nature and biomimicry, incorporating not just albatross traits but aerodynamic refinements from other birds and advanced simulation technologies.
So yes — while not a one-to-one copy, the albatross was a direct biological inspiration for the 787's advanced, efficient wing design." - chatgpt

It’s a turboprop…. Calm down.

Amazing, but it will be terrifying to see what looks like a dual blade buzzsaw just outside the window. However my guess is there will be no windows in the plane of rotation of the exposed fan blades. That area of the fuselage will likely be extra strong to be able to cope with these things throwing a blade. todays turbofan engines have the advantage of being within a pod that takes a lot of the loads of a thrown blade or other malfunction although they are not perfect either - as the tragic SWA incident showed.

Boeing's future is in trouble. plus Trump tariffs will reduce sales to other countries.

Airbus are always thinking ahead 🔥 Love it

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