Project · Aerospace · ICAO

Airliner.

A wide-body airframe for the ICAO concept programme — a blended body carrying its engines above the wing rather than beneath it, with twin fins set outboard to finish the job the airframe starts.

Programme
ICAO
Concept study
Sector
Aerospace
Commercial aviation
Role
Design & CGI
Exterior · visualisation
Type
Wide-body concept
Over-wing propulsion
About the project

Engines on top.

Almost every airliner flying hangs its engines under the wing, and for good reasons: access, ground clearance for maintenance, a clean structural load path. It also puts the loudest thing on the aircraft on the side facing the neighbourhood under the approach path.

Move the nacelles above the wing and the wing itself becomes an acoustic barrier — the structure shields a large part of the fan and jet noise from anyone on the ground. The intakes also sit well clear of the runway, which takes debris ingestion off the table. The costs are real and worth naming: the nacelles are harder to reach on a stand, and the interaction between the exhaust and the upper surface is a genuine aerodynamic problem rather than a detail.

The airframe around them is blended — cabin crown flowing outward into the wing root instead of meeting it at a fairing — and the tail is split into twin fins set outboard, where they stay in clean air behind the widened body.

Renders

Six reads.

Head-on, planform, profile and three-quarter — the arrangement shown from the angles that actually explain it.

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