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Beyond tube-and-wing : the X-48 blended wing-body and NASA's quest to reshape future transport aircraft /

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"This book details the remarkable efforts to develop a new aircraft configuration known as the Blended Wing-Body (BWB). Responding to a challenge from NASA, McDonnell Douglas Corporation initiated studies in the early 1990s to determine if this new configuration could bring about significant ad...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Larrimer, Bruce I. (Author)
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : NASA, [2020]
Series:NASA aeronautics book series.
Subjects:
X-48 (Research plane)
Blended wing-body aircraft > United States > Design and construction > History.
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Boeing Company.
Research.
United States.
History.
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