Alaska Airlines announced a major investment in JetZero, which will see the airline supporting the aircraft developer as it works to bring a new Blended Wing Body aircraft to market. The JetZero ...

The United States Air Force has taken an interest in JetZero's revolutionary blended wing body (BWB) aircraft. BWBs are not new; NASA experimented with them in the 1990s, while military flying ...

While super-efficient blended wing body concepts are starting to gain traction, there are still some issues that need to be ...

Among the most likely concepts is a blended-wing-body aircraft, which combines the fuselage and wing into one. This deviates from the traditional tube-and-wing design that has been the norm for ...

Airbus has revealed MAVERIC (Model Aircraft for Validation and Experimentation of Robust Innovative Controls) its “blended wing body” scale model technological demonstrator.

The Blended Wing Body (BWB) concept represents a transformative shift in aircraft design, merging the wing and fuselage into a single, continuous lifting surface.

Instead of relying on the usual layout of an airliner, the French opted for a blended-wing body design. The unusual aspect of this particular model isn't just a gimmick, allowing the aircraft to ...

The Aurora will be shaped like a fan-in-wing, with the machine looking like a really fat aircraft in a blended wing body design when looked at from above, but one that hides fans on the underside ...

Boeing’s blended wing body program manager Bob Liebeck said earlier flight tests of the X-48B proved that a blended wing body aircraft can be controlled as effectively as a conventional tube-and-wing ...

November 1, 2006 Ground testing of the X-48B Blended Wing Body (BWB) concept will start in the near future in preparation for flight testing early next year. The X-48B ground and flight testing ...

Boeing and NASA continue to push ahead with testing of their X-48B blended wing body (BWB) research aircraft, a design Boeing engineers say is about 30-percent more fuel efficient than a similarly ...

The Boeing X-48 Blended Wing Body subscale research aircraft made its 100th flight in late October at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.