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Aviation Industry contemplating Blended-Wing-Body (BWB) Drone Tankers
New tanker aircraft concepts are in the news—and, for a change, are reprising the unconventional, and arguably long-overlooked blended-wing-body (BWB) aircraft design. Aviation commentators have occasionally attributed the development of the BWB aircraft planform to research by Boeing, Airbus or others conducted in the 1980s, but, to the best of our knowledge, the original work of aviation pioneer Vincent J. Burnelli was the first practical work on the BWB design (see last photo). As reported...
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