The Weekly Debrief: USAF Launches Blended Wing Body Effort, Re-kindles X-48C
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Nearly a decade after NASA retired a subscale prototype with no follow-up program, the U.S. Defense Department has proposed launching a large-scale prototyping effort for a blended wing body (BWB) aircraft, which will be evaluated as a future tanker, airlifter and bomber. The U.S. Air Force- and...
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