Flying wing
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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
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.
Lifting body
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A lifting body is a fixed-wing aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which the body itself produces lift. In contrast to a flying wing, which is a wing with minimal or no conventional fuselage, a li
Flying wing
…aircraft designs, that are not technically flying wings, are sometimes casually referred to as such. These types include blended wing body aircraft and lifting body aircraft, which have a fuselage and no definite wings. Whilst a pure flying wing is theoretically the lowest-drag design configuration for a fixed wing…
US X-24A, M2-F3 and HL-10 lifting bodies
The Martin Aircraft Company X-24 built as part of a 1963-to-1975 experimental U.S. military program
Burnelli General Airborne Transport XCG-16, a lifting body aircraft (1944)
This F-15D Eagle was able to successfully maintain control and perform an emergency landing after a mid-air collision in 1983 that resulted in the loss of one of its wings, in part due to lift generated from its fuselage.