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    A blended wing body (BWB), also known as blended body, hybrid wing body (HWB) or a lifting aerofoil fuselage, is a fixed-wing aircraft having no clear...
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    and distinct and separate wing structures, though the wings are smoothly blended in with the body. Thus blended wing bodied aircraft incorporate design...
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    though the wings are blended with the body. Blended wing bodied aircraft incorporate design features from both fuselage and flying wing designs. The purported...
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    JetZero (category Blended wing body)
    industry founded in Long Beach, California, in 2021. It focuses on blended wing body aircraft. The U.S. Air Force, NASA, and a small group of private investors...
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  • as senior fellow at the Boeing Company. in 2020, he oversaw their Blended Wing Body ("BWB") program. He has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering...
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    Liberdade class blended wing bodies are autonomous underwater gliders developed by the US Navy Office of Naval Research which use a blended wing body hullform...
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    lifting body is a fixed-wing aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which the body itself produces lift. In contrast to a flying wing, which is a wing with...
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    Boeing X-48 (category Blended wing body)
    aerial vehicle (UAV) built to investigate the characteristics of blended wing body (BWB) aircraft. Boeing designed the X-48 and two examples were built...
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    These types include blended wing body aircraft and lifting body aircraft, which have a fuselage and no definite wings. A pure flying wing is theoretically...
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  • Tupolev Tu-404 (category Blended wing body)
    The Tupolev Tu-404 was a wide-body superjumbo blended wing jet airliner proposed by Russian aerospace company Tupolev. Work on the Tu-404 was initiated...
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