The Boeing X-48 is an American experimental unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) built to investigate the characteristics of blended wing body (BWB) aircraft. Boeing designed the X-48 and two …

A blended wing body (BWB), also known as blended body, hybrid wing body (HWB) or a lifting aerofoil fuselage, [1] is a fixed-wing aircraft having no clear dividing line between the wings …

2010年2月11日 · The two X-48B Blended Wing Body technology demonstration aircraft were built by Cranfield Aerospace in the United Kingdom to Boeing’s specifications. The sub-scale …

2023年8月16日 · After more than 30 years of subscale flight testing and optimization studies, the blended wing body (BWB) is edging closer to reality with the launch of a full-scale U.S. Air …

2025年1月5日 · 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 …

As part of continuing efforts to position its long-researched blended wing body (BWB) for a future military transport role, Boeing has unveiled a redefined scalable configuration for...

2023年8月17日 · The Department of the Air Force announced the selection of JetZero for the next phase of a blended wing body prototype aircraft project on August 16, 2023. The effort aims to …

2022年10月5日 · The Air Force plans to complete testing of a full-scale blended wing body advanced cargo/tanker aircraft within four years, according to the department’s new Climate …

2023年8月23日 · With its spin parachute tail stinger extending aft, Boeing's sub-scale X-48B BWB technology demonstrator showed off its clean semi-triangular shape. The unique manta-ray …

The Blended-Wing-Body (BWB) concept has shown substantial performance benefits over conventional aircraft configuration with part of the benefit being derived from the absence of a …