A blended wing body, also known as blended body, hybrid wing body or a lifting aerofoil fuselage, is a fixed-wing aircraft having no clear dividing line between the wings and the main body of the craf
A rendering of the US Air Force blended wing body aircraft project
The Northrop BAT UAV in flight from below
Image of the "Boeing 797" from Popular Science, 2003
A flying wing is a tailless fixed-wing aircraft that has no definite fuselage, with its crew, payload, fuel, and equipment housed inside the main wing structure. A flying wing may have various small p
Blended wing body
…the craft. The aircraft has distinct wing and body structures, which are smoothly blended together with no clear dividing line. This contrasts with a flying wing, which has no distinct fuselage, and a lifting body, which has no distinct wings. A BWB design may or may not be tailless. The main advantage of the…
The Northrop B-2 Spirit stealth bomber
The Northrop N-1M on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
The Westland-Hill Pterodactyl was an early flying wing design.
The Northrop YB-35 bomber prototype began its development during World War II.