What does BWB stand for?

Blended Wing Body (flying wing)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The X-48B flew as well as we had predicted, and we look forward to many productive data flights this summer and fall," said Gary Cosentino, NASA Dryden's Blended Wing Body project manager.

X-48B FLIGHT A MILESTONE FOR PROGRAM

The X-48B Blended Wing Body aircraft was controlled by a pilot at a ground station.

New X-plane flies at Calif. air base

The X-48B Blended Wing Body aircraft was controlled by a pilot at a ground station.

First flight for X-48B Blended Wing Body

On an even longer timescale (beyond 2015), Boeing could produce a completely new tanker transport based on the Blended Wing Body (BWB) concept.

Fill it up, please!

See "Boeing Blended Wing Body Large Commercial Transport," Jane's All the World's Aircraft, 14 July 2003, www.

Global air mobility and persistent airpower operations

Boeing has been perfecting a plane, called the Blended Wing Body, that would do away with the traditional tubular and biwinged structure, replacing it with a giant wing and hanging belly for passengers and cargo.

Boeing's bat plane on horizon Revolutionary design may be tested by ...

The efficiencies of the blended wing body design, explained Muellner in a briefing to reporters, come from greater range and fuel economy, lower manufacturing costs and greater reliability and safety.

Blended Wing Body Jet Safer and More Efficient, Claims Boeing

skeen(at)dailynews (661) 267-5743 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: The X-48B Blended Wing Body prototype awaits testing in a wind tunnel at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.

TAILLESS CRAFT TO BE TESTED AT EDWARDS