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 ...

Aug. 17 (UPI) --The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday selected the company JetZero to develop the next phase of a prototype for a blended wing body aircraft, a change in design from traditional ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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Air travelers in the next few years may be able to take a futuristic flight on an innovative blended-wing-body aircraft meant to help Delta Air Lines reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Delta is ...