Aurora Flight Sciences on Oct. 8 unveiled new details of a notional operational variant of the fan-in-wing concept it is proposing for a high-speed, vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) X-Plane.

There's room towards the wings for hydrogen tanks too. JetZero's blended wing concept isn't just a pretty take on modern aircraft. The flat fuselage can contribute much more lift than the ...

The blended wing concept is an interesting departure from the standard jetliner format. As the name implies, this design integrates the fuselage and wings of the aircraft into a single ...

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 ...

Hydrogen fuel could even be combined with a radical design - one of the concepts included the blended wing. But there is a significant problem here. Most of our hydrogen supplies today are derived ...

Aurora Flight Sciences, a participant in DARPA's Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program, shares more ...

US start-up JetZero has crafted a uniquely shaped plane with a "blended-wing" body heavily inspired by stealth bombers. The groundbreaking Pathfinder jet was cleared to fly earlier this year and ...

There are already concepts like zero-emission electric ... The twinjet features a unique "blended-wing body," or BWB, a design where the wing and fuselage are combined into one.

But that might soon change, with blended wing airliners looking like the next step in air travel efficiency. In the video after the break, [Real Engineering] takes us on a fascinating tour of the ...

But that might soon change, with blended wing airliners looking like the next step in air travel efficiency. In the video after the break, [Real Engineering] takes us on a fascinating tour of the ...

Aurora Flight Sciences' Fan-in-Wing technology development progresses: flight testing of the final design is targeted for ...