NASA To Fly Sub-Scale Blended Wing Body

ANASA/Boeing team plans to begin flight tests early in 2002 of a sub-scale, low-speed Blended Wing Body aircraft to determine the design's feasibility as a future commercial and military transport. Early studies of a Blended Wing Body (BWB) transport by NASA and McDonnell Douglas centered on an 800...

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