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Two companies want to puncture the Airbus-Boeing duopoly with a new jet type, but Airubs hopes to stay one step ahead with its own flying wing airliner.
The Boeing X-48 is an American experimental unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) built to investigate the characteristics of blended wing body (BWB) aircraft. Boeing designed the X-48 and two examples were built by Cranfield Aerospace in the UK. Boeing began flight testing the X-48B version for NASA in 2007. The X-48B was later modified into the X-48C ...
Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 1947 – Jet powered flying wing; Avro 707 1949 – Aerodynamic proof of concept for Avro Vulcan delta wing bomber; Avro Ashton – Jet engine research vehicle based on Avro Tudor; BAC 221 – High speed delta wing research; Baynes Bat – Experimental tailless glider; Blackburn B-20 – Retractable hull seaplane
Natilus' design for a "blended-wing" concept combines the wing and fuselage to increase efficiency. Imagine a B-21 bomber with passenger windows.
silhouettes of Boeing NMA concept at right between 787-8 on top and 737 MAX 10 on bottom, as presented at Paris Air Show 2017. At the June 2017 Paris Air Show, Boeing's aircraft development manager Mike Delaney confirmed the use of composites for the whole airframe, which would have a hybrid cross-section and bypass ratios above 10:1. [23]
Both Boeing and Airbus are tinkering with the idea, and JetZero’s new milestone brings it a little closer to its ambitious goal of putting into service a blended wing aircraft as soon as 2030.
Illustration of the Boeing SUGAR Volt concept aircraft. SUGAR Volt is the hybrid aircraft concept proposed by a team led by Boeing's Research & Technology division. It is one of a series of concepts put forward in response to a request for proposals for future aircraft issued by NASA.
A flying wing is a type of tailless aircraft which has no distinct fuselage. The crew, engines and equipment are housed inside a thick wing, typically showing small nacelles, blisters and other housings.