The Boeing
Blended Wing Body is another innovative concept for long-range flight.
The most hyped design, however, seems to be the
blended wing body. Essentially, this is a large flying wing with the passenger cabin or cargo storage area within its centre section.
The
Blended Wing Body (BWB) is a tailless unconventional aircraft concept characterised by a blended functionality between the portions of the airframe dedicated to the payload allocation (the fuselage) and generation of lift (the wing).
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Blended Wing Body.
TRANSFORMED X-48C :The remotely operated X-48C
Blended Wing Body aircraft lifts off Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on its first test flight Aug.
A modified Boeing (NYSE: BA)
Blended Wing Body research aircraft designated the X-48C flew for the first time this week at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
M2 EQUITYBITES-August 8, 2012--Boeing flies X-48C
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The Air Force also has high hopes for the
blended wing body aircraft that is being developed by NASA, Boeing Phantom Works, and the Air Force Research Lab at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
Boeing executives have said they are studying three options - the sleek Sonic Cruiser, which would fly 15 to 20 per cent faster than normal planes; a conventional jetliner; and an even more radical concept for an all-wing airliner, the
Blended Wing Body.
This year the quality of the aircraft was very high and the University of Manchester came out on top, with its design of a
Blended Wing Body aircraft.