Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Blended Wing Body (BWB) design has been around since the 1920s but has only seen real-world use in military aircraft, like the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Air Force has selected JetZero to design and build a demonstrator aircraft with a blended wing body, or BWB, configuration ...

For more than half a century, every commercial jet has looked essentially the same: a cylindrical tube bolted to a pair of ...

More than a century of aviation has given us humans certain preconceptions when it comes to the machines that fly in our sky. Just take the shape of an aircraft into consideration. The simple mention ...

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JetZero's Blended Wing Body demonstrator gained Air Force and DIU financial backing last week, intended to fund a flying prototype which could lead to a production aircraft for the commercial market ...

The global aviation industry faces a projected shortfall of over 17,000 commercial aircraft deliveries in the next two decades, creating a market opportunity for alternative designs. Blended-wing body ...

EDWARDS, Calif. – NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center and The Boeing Co. are expanding the flight envelope for the X-48B blended wing body research aircraft. Flight tests with the 500-pound, remotely ...

North Carolina has apparently been chosen as the location for a blended-wing-body aircraft manufacturing site, and though the company behind the plan has yet to be named, reports indicate the firm is ...

EDWARDS, Calif. — NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., provided critical support for the first flight July 20 of the X-48B. The 21-foot wingspan, 500-pound remotely piloted test ...

The most recent global market forecasts from Boeing and Airbus project demand for more than 43,000 new commercial aviation airplanes over the next two decades. But according to Aleksey Matyushev, ...