A blended wing body (BWB), also known as blended body, hybrid wing body (HWB) or a lifting aerofoil fuselage, is a fixed-wing aircraft having no clear...
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though the wings are blended with the body. Blended wing bodied aircraft incorporate design features from both fuselage and flying wing designs. The purported...
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Airplane (redirect from Powered fixed-wing aircraft)
and distinct and separate wing structures, though the wings are smoothly blended in with the body. Thus blended wing bodied aircraft incorporate design...
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JetZero (category Blended wing body)
industry founded in Long Beach, California, in 2021. It focuses on blended wing body aircraft. The U.S. Air Force, NASA, and a small group of private investors...
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lifting body is a fixed-wing aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which the body itself produces lift. In contrast to a flying wing, which is a wing with...
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Robert H. Liebeck (section Blended wing body)
as senior fellow at the Boeing Company. in 2020, he oversaw their Blended Wing Body ("BWB") program. He has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering...
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Boeing X-48 (category Blended wing body)
aerial vehicle (UAV) built to investigate the characteristics of blended wing body (BWB) aircraft. Boeing designed the X-48 and two examples were built...
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These types include blended wing body aircraft and lifting body aircraft, which have a fuselage and no definite wings. A pure flying wing is theoretically...
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Tupolev Tu-404 (category Blended wing body)
The Tupolev Tu-404 was a wide-body superjumbo blended wing jet airliner proposed by Russian aerospace company Tupolev. Work on the Tu-404 was initiated...
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present) such as on the B-2 stealth bomber. Blended body or blended wing-body: a smooth transition occurs between wing and fuselage, with no hard dividing line...
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List of flying wings (redirect from List of flying wing aircraft)
wing, typically showing small nacelles, blisters and other housings. Blended wing body Lifting body Development History of Horten Flying Wing Aircraft...
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Northrop Grumman Bat (category Blended wing body)
with Blended Wing-Body for Electronic Warfare (EW)/Attack Ops (Video!)" retrieved on August 15, 2014 Black, Sara (5 January 2007), "Blended Wing UAV"...
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Airbus MAVERIC (category Blended wing body)
Experimentation of Robust Innovative Controls) is an experimental blended wing body (BWB) unmanned aerial vehicle. It was built as a demonstrator for...
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X-48B Blended Wing Body Concept" (Press release). Boeing. Retrieved 10 April 2012. Philip Lorenz III (3 July 2007). "AEDC testing brings unique blended wing...
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Northrop Grumman X-47C (category Blended wing body)
The Northrop Grumman X-47C was a design study for a stealth bomber. After the USAF made plans for a next generation bomber following the 2006 Quadrennial...
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Lockheed L-133 (category Mid-wing aircraft)
design was to be powered by two axial-flow turbojets with an unusual blended wing-body canard design capable of 612 mph (985 km/h) in level flight. The USAAF...
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He is most known for his contributions to the design of UAVs and Blended Wing Body (BWB) aircraft. He is currently the co-founder and Chief Technology...
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Chyeranovskii BICh-26 (category Blended wing body)
characteristics Crew: 1 Length: 9.0 m (29 ft 7 in) Wingspan: 7.0 m (23 ft 0 in) Wing area: 27 m2 (291 sq ft) Gross weight: 4,500 kg (9,920 lb) Powerplant: 1 ×...
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is a San Diego-based aerospace company developing next-generation blended-wing-body cargo aircraft. Natilus was founded in April 2016 by Aleksey Matyushev...
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Composites will work with JetZero in helping to develop a prototype blended wing body Z-5 demonstrator tanker aircraft Next Generation Air-Refueling System...
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The Horten Aircraft HX-2 is a two-seat flying wing or "Blended Wing Body" aircraft powered by a Rotax 912 iS2 engine. It was built and first flown by Horten...
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aircraft and spacecraft design. For example, the proposed Boeing blended wing body (BWB) aircraft concept has used MDO extensively in the conceptual...
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747 to compete with the DC-10 and L-1011, changed to four engines Blended Wing Body Trijet – proposed design based on the Boeing X-48 McDonnell Douglas...
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Fuselage (redirect from Air craft Body)
Administration's experimental lifting body designs and the Vought XF5U-1 Flying Flapjack. A blended wing body can be considered a mixture of the above...
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List of large aircraft (section Fixed-wing)
This is a list of large aircraft, including three types: fixed wing, rotary wing, and airships. The US Federal Aviation Administration defines a large...
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Demonstrator Boeing Pelican ULTRA Boeing X-48 Blended Wing Body demonstrator X-53 Active Aeroelastic Wing Quad TiltRotor (with Bell Helicopter) F/A-XX:...
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Wingtip device (redirect from Blended winglet)
develops blended winglets as retrofits for the Gulfstream II, Hawker 800 and the Falcon 2000. Boeing 747-400 canted winglet Airbus A320 sharklet (blended winglet)...
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Chengdu J-20, whose canards are mounted inline with its chines.) Blended wing body Angled chine, different from soft (rounded) chine NASA-AIAA-98-2725...
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Airliner (section Narrow-body airliners)
has been a mere burden. NASA and Boeing are currently developing a blended wing body design in which the entire airframe, from wingtip to wingtip, contributes...
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model of the H.XVIII was a long, smooth blended wing body. Its six turbojet engines were buried deep in the wing and the exhausts centered on the trailing...
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