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 ...

The aviation industry anticipates a demand for over 43,000 new commercial aircraft in the next two decades, a gap that traditional manufacturers like Boeing and Airbus may struggle to fill, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A startup planemaker announced a 200-passenger "blended wing body" plane to rival Airbus and Boeing. Natilus' design aims to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Delta Air Lines has agreed to support start-up JetZero’s development of a blended-wing-body commercial aircraft by providing operational and cabin-design input. In revealing the partnership on 5 March ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The U.S. Air Force expressed interest in the design presumably as a long-range, multi-role bomber. However, Boeing’s VP of Product Development and Future Airplane ...

LAS VEGAS—Blended wing body (BWB) developer JetZero has completed the preliminary design review (PDR) for its full-scale demonstrator following a flight with its subscale Pathfinder AV-1 vehicle that ...

In the early 2000s, Cranfield Aerospace—a division of the University—built two X-48B experimental BWB aircraft for Boeing which were tested with NASA. Credit: NASA Image Collection / Alamy Stock Photo ...