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5) E-commerce is also a driving force in the comeback of BWB.
6) Finally, the most surprising find: BWBs have to be big if they carry humans.
Legacy aircraft manufacturers sell different-sized passenger airplanes and don't want to invest in a format that can not deliver medium size planes.
read it here:
https://miguel-pacheco.medium.com/blended-wing-cargo-aircraft-at-the-dawn-of-hydrogen-flight-fcff32fb09ad
Or read more about the hydrogen revolution
https://miguel-pacheco.medium.com/list/the-hydrogen-revolution-2c4937ae3126
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2) BWB has more lift and less drag, which allows a more efficient flight with less energy consumption.
3) On the other hand, they come with challenges in flight stability and structural design.
4) Startups are pursuing BWB, one of them with a contract from the US Air Force to make transport and tanker planes.
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I recently wrote an article on blended-wing aircraft as the latest installment of a series looking at hydrogen-powered vehicles on land, sea, and air,
Some highlights I got while researching and writing.
1) Blended-wings body (BWB) aircraft are not new. The concept is making a comeback because of the search for net-zero flight.
Le 18 août 2023, par Arnaud. C'est un concept quasiment aussi vieux que le transport aérien lui-même puisqu'il remonte à la fin des années 1920 au travers alors des Dyle et Bacalan Technologies
Jetzero received funding from the US Air Force to develop a Blended Wing Body. There are concepts to use it in civil aircraft, too. This might change how we fly. 🛫
#Jetzero #USAirForce #BlendedWingBody #CivilAircraft #Fly
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/jetzero-nurfluegler-luftwaffe-passagierfluege-1.6136894
Natilus Selects ZeroAvia ZA600 Hydrogen-Electric Engines for Zero-Emission Propulsion
#hydrogen #fuelcell #aviation #hydrogenaviation #blendedwingbody #airplane #airplanes
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