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 ...

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 ...

This is an amazing flying wing project, using classic balsa wood construction and covering. You can learn more in the dedicated article where you'll find all the information and download all the files ...

A scaled model of the ‘Flying-V’ blended wing aircraft concept — first unveiled by Dutch researchers last year — has completed its first test flight in Germany. Airbus also emerged as the latest ...

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 ...

The aircraft is similar to another concept model revealed during the 2018 Singapore Air Show, called the Star Shadow, which was developed with an unspecified Chinese institution. A new flying wing ...

Airbus is studying blended-wing airliner designs as a means to cut CO2 emissions by more than 20% and has already test flown a sub-scale model as part of its research efforts. An initial sortie of ...

Lockheed Martin's Hybrid Wing Body (HWB) airlifter will fly sometime this year—or at least a four percent scale model of the aircraft will fly. The model has completed testing in a low-speed wind ...

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 ...

Chinese media described the large unmanned flying wing drone as a stealth-centric, long endurance, persistent reconnaissance ...