MDC eyes prospects for blended wing body X-plane

McDonnell Douglas hopes to persuade NASA to back its ideas for a blended wing body jetliner, which would carry some 800 passengers at a fraction of today's cost, with an X-plane research program that could start in 1998. Designers here told The DAILY that significant interest already exists within...

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