A new type of passenger plane will adopt a design that blends wings into the aircraft's body, which its creators say will cut fuel consumption by 50% and reduce noise.

Blended Wing Body (BWB) aircraft represent a significant innovation in aviation design, characterized by their unique shape that merges the wings and body into a single structure. This design aims ...

The passenger aircraft prototype presented at the CES 2025 electronics trade show in Las Vegas demonstrates that the wings ...

A new passenger plane design using a blended wing shape promises a 50 percent reduction in fuel consumption and will launch ...

The participants will be some of the first to experience BWB aircraft designs in what could be the future of aviation.

One such company is JetZero, which, in partnership with engineering giants Siemens and Northrop Grumman, is developing a ...

Learn about Blended Wing Body aircraft, a remotely piloted experimental jet shaped like a manta ray. Engineer Bob Liebeck explains how Boeing is working with NASA to explore fuel savings and other ...

The plane uses a "blended wing" design, which could improve fuel efficiency by 50%, JetZero and Siemens representatives said Wednesday (Jan. 8) in a press conference held at CES 2025 in Las Vegas.

Turning to the fuselage, 41% of airline respondents and 43% of lessors expressed a desire for a traditional narrowbody design ...

But that might soon change, with blended wing airliners looking like the next step in air travel efficiency. In the video after the break, [Real Engineering] takes us on a fascinating tour of the ...

The Airbus Maveric is a remote-controlled blended-wing test aircraft At an undisclosed location Airbus has spent months testing a radical looking plane. At 10ft (3m) wide, it is only small ...

BAE Systems says it will provide and integrate actuator control units (ACUs) for JetZero’s next-generation blended wing-body ...