The United States Air Force is working with JetZero to develop a new tanker with an efficient blended wing design.

Learn about Blended Wing Body aircraft, a remotely piloted experimental jet shaped like a manta ray. Engineer Bob Liebeck explains how Boeing is working with NASA to explore fuel savings and other ...

Blended Wing Body (BWB) aircraft represent a significant innovation in aviation design, characterized by their unique shape that merges the wings and body into a single structure. This design aims ...

The U.S. Air Force is collecting data from flight tests of a subscale version of its BWB (Blended-Wing Body) demonstrator to inform the full-scale aircraft’s control software and final ...

Alaska Airlines is exploring JetZero's fuel-efficient blended-wing body aircraft design for sustainable aviation. The BWB design reduces fuel consumption by up to 50% due to aerodynamic efficiency ...

BWB aircraft are based on the principle of distributing the lift and drag forces over a large surface area, rather than concentrating them on discrete components. This reduces the overall drag ...

NASA’s X-48 test plane was intended to test the handling qualities and noise of a blended wing body design as part of a storied history of X-planes. As per a NASA June 8, 2013 statement, the X-48 ...