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 ...
It’s been a question most of us have been asking since we watched The Jetsons. When will the flying car become a reality? Always tantalisingly close, the notion of a ...
As the U.S. Air Force is moving to modernize its fleet of aircraft, it is looking to new and innovative designs to help it advance its goals. And one such design is that of a blended-wing body ...
WASHINGTON — A flying model NASA built to research futuristic aircraft designs will spend its future in the United States’ premier air and space museum. The 12-foot wing span blended wing body, or BWB ...
The Chinese mystery aircraft might not be an actual flying asset but rather a model used to test the design’s radar characteristics. A mysterious flying-wing aircraft appeared in satellite images of a ...
Last year we caught wind of an interesting aviation concept cooked up by engineers at TU Delft, which consisted of a novel V-shaped design that promises significant efficiency gains over conventional ...