Design of a commercial aircraft for high-subsonic speed as a flying wing configuration

In this work a new concept for a commercial airplane is derived. The idea is to arrange two pressurized cylindrical sections for the payload swept back in the shape of a V and position them inside the front section of a single wing with the same sweep angle. The concept is designed for 315 passengers in a two class layout and is compared to the reference aircraft, Airbus A350-900. According to the preliminary estimations made in this paper a benefit of 10% in aerodynamics (L/D) and of 2% in mass can be expected of the new configuration over the reference. Further studies will be needed to validate these results and show the feasibility of the concept.