Challenges for unconventional transport aircraft configurations

Abstract If we look at transport aircraft which are flying today and are responsible for safe and economical air transport, they all look fairly similar. But this need not always be the case. In this paper a new approach to the problem of Unconventional Configurations (UcC) versus Conventional Configurations will be tried by looking from the market side, for which market segments and niches, new possibilities for UcC, will be reasonable and may lead to viable concepts.