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Blended wing body: the future of air transportation?

For the 100 years or so of air transport, the form factor of airplanes has been essentially consistent: a fuselage, usually cylindrical, with attached wings and tail.  While relatively simple to build, with a good strength to weight ratio, aerodynamically, this form factor is not the most efficient. Eliminating the fuselage and building the aircraft as a flying wing has long been recognized as a path to greater efficiency and performance, and since the late 1940s, multiple flying wing designs have been proposed. Very few have made it into hardware, but a form of hybrid concept, called the blended wing body, appears to be a practical way to reduce drag, and consequently fuel burn, and commercial aircraft. * * engineering.com TV: Watch in-depth engineering videos made for the engineering professional and found exclusively on engineering.com TV: Panel Expert Roundtables: https://www.engineering.com/category/... For the Design Engineer: https://www.engineering.com/category/... For the Manufacturing Engineer: https://www.engineering.com/category/... * * STEM GAMES: Play some fun engineering-based STEM games on engineering.com: https://www.engineering.com/games/ * * #JetZero #BlendedWingBody #aviationindustry