Project · Aerospace · ICAO

Vliner.

A wide-body airliner concept for the ICAO programme — the tube-and-wing swapped for a blended lifting fuselage, where the body that carries the passengers also carries part of the aeroplane.

Programme
ICAO
Concept study
Sector
Aerospace
Commercial aviation
Role
Design & CGI
Exterior · visualisation
Type
Wide-body concept
Blended lifting fuselage
About the project

The fuselage that flies.

A conventional airliner is a pressure vessel that the wing has to carry. The blended approach refuses that division: the body is widened and profiled until it generates lift of its own, and the wing grows out of it rather than being bolted to it.

What that buys is cabin volume for the same wetted area — a wider floor, more seats abreast, less structure doing nothing but holding air in. What it costs is every certainty the industry has built around a cylinder: pressurisation of a non-circular section, evacuation from a wide floor plate, and passengers seated far from any window.

The design work here is the exterior and the identity — the surface transition from the cabin crown into the wing root, the tail arrangement, and a green-and-white livery that follows the blend instead of fighting it.

Renders

In cruise.

Five frames — planform, profile, and the aircraft in its element above weather.

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