NASA PUSHES BLENDED WING/BODY TO CUT NOISE AND FUEL BURN
NASA is planning wind tunnel tests of low-noise hybrid wing/body configurations as it pushes to enable the introduction of a new generation of highly fuel-efficient large aircraft as early as 2020. Boeing has been studying blended wing/body (BWB) aircraft for years, in the belief airplanes could...
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