High-tech design promises big reductions in fuel burn.

Ask anyone what an airplane looks like and most will tell you a tube with wings. NASA researchers are trying to expand that image. They’re testing a design for a flying wing, called a blended wing ...

The U.S. Air Force says it has picked aviation startup JetZero to design and build a full-size demonstrator aircraft with a blended wing body, or BWB, configuration. The goal is for the aircraft, ...

Like everything else around us, aviation is changing too, and it does so at a rapid pace. From new ways to power the planes to new and more efficient shapes of airplanes' bodies, the biggest players ...

The Blended Wing Body (BWB) design has been around since the 1920s but has only seen real-world use in military aircraft, like the B-1 Lancer bomber. Unlike a flying wing (which is all wing) or a ...

With a wingspan of 23 feet, Pathfinder is a 1:8 scale model of the full-size aircraft but features the same wonderfully unconventional body. (A blended-wing jet, or “flying wing,” seamlessly combines ...

The CEO of Airbus commented on what the future of commercial aviation might look like, citing the advantages and some big ...

Ask someone to picture an airplane and they’re likely to think of what is essentially a tube with wings and a stabilizing tail tacked onto one end of said tube. Yet it is also no secret that the lift ...

San Diego startup Natilus plans to build the world's first blended wing body (BWB) airliner, the Horizon, aiming for a 2030 launch. The Horizon is designed to seat 200 passengers and use 30% less fuel ...

The model took flight Jan. 30 from the UAV Flight Test Center in Jingbian, China. Credit: Northwestern Polytechnic University SINGAPORE—China has flown a verification scale model of the BWB-330 ...