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 ...

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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As the U.S. Air Force is moving to modernize its fleet of aircraft, it is looking to new and innovative designs to help it advance its goals. And one such design is that of a blended-wing body ...

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 ...

Boeing’s X-48 is an unmanned aerial vehicle that was jointly developed by NASA and Boeing’s Phantom Works, a division similar to Lockheed Martin’s Skunkworks. Though small, the design was intended to ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Blended wing body aircraft are potentially quieter than traditional jet airliners. There are also military applications for blended wing body aircraft. The U.S. Air ...

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 ...