{"id":192896,"date":"2009-02-08T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/08\/blended-wing-transports\/"},"modified":"2009-02-08T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T17:01:00","slug":"blended-wing-transports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/08\/blended-wing-transports\/","title":{"rendered":"Blended Wing Transports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-02-02&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/02\/02\/AW_02_02_2009_p50-111472.xml\">NASA is big on them to improve efficiency<\/a>, and the Boeing&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-02-02&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/02\/02\/AW_02_02_2009_p52-113992.xml&amp;headline=X-48B+BWB+Takes+a+Cautious+Approach+to+the+Stall\">sub scale demonstrator, the X-48B<\/a> continues apace, with the development team looking at stall characteristics, and the Europeans are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-02-02&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/02\/02\/AW_02_02_2009_p50-113986.xml\">conducting validation studies on a BWB with 1000 passengers<\/a>. (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required for all links<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>It will require rather a lot of validation and test in both structures and control surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, here is some picture pr0n:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" src=\"http:\/\/img11.imageshack.us\/img11\/4795\/aw02022009507l6951797au6.jpg\" \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Podded Engines<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" src=\"http:\/\/img10.imageshack.us\/img10\/7783\/aw02022009506l6931028kw3.jpg\" \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">More advanced serpentine duct arrangement.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" src=\"http:\/\/img12.imageshack.us\/img12\/5755\/aw02022009508l6963305fq2.jpg\" \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Structural Test Item<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" src=\"http:\/\/img10.imageshack.us\/img10\/9476\/aw02022009510l6979055no1.jpg\" \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">X-48 B<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, NASA is big on them to improve efficiency, and the Boeing&#8217;s sub scale demonstrator, the X-48B continues apace, with the development team looking at stall characteristics, and the Europeans are conducting validation studies on a BWB with 1000 passengers. (paid subscription required for all links) It will require rather a lot of validation and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}