joined the Bonn glider club in 1925, and soon turned from flying kites to a far more ambitious activity—experimenting on a futuristic, tail-less aircraft known as a flying wing. The idea was not ...

Blended wing body aircraft come with several advantages ... Closer to our time, in the 1990s, McDonnell Douglas and NASA joined forces to create something called the BWB-17, and even Airbus ...

but achieve much faster flight than a helicopter by tilting the nacelles forward while in flight in a configuration similar to a fixed-wing aircraft. With the speed and range of a turboprop ...

Delta isn’t providing any capital investment in the company but, rather, operational support to help make its dream of a blended-wing aircraft a reality. JetZero will join Delta’s Sustainable ...

Air travelers in the next few years may be able to take a futuristic flight on an innovative blended-wing-body aircraft meant to help Delta Air Lines reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.