Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Blended wing" aircraft could be the future of commercial aviation. Airbus and the startups JetZero and Natilus are leading ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Blended Wing Body (BWB) design has been around since the 1920s but has only seen real-world use in military aircraft, like the ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An aerospace expert and Managing Director of The Lundquist Group. Earlier this month the venture arm of Alaska Airlines announced ...

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 ...

North Carolina has apparently been chosen as the location for a blended-wing-body aircraft manufacturing site, and though the company behind the plan has yet to be named, reports indicate the firm is ...

Recent events show JetZero is continuing to make progress against its goal of launching a Blended Wing Body aircraft that could potentially upend the current commercial aerospace duopoly and propel ...

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 ...

EDWARDS, Calif. – NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center and The Boeing Co. are expanding the flight envelope for the X-48B blended wing body research aircraft. Flight tests with the 500-pound, remotely ...

"Blended wing" aircraft could be the future of commercial aviation. Airbus and the startups JetZero and Natilus are leading development of these efficient flying wings. The jets would burn ...

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 ...