China Conducts Blended Wing Body Verification Scale Model Flight Written 1 February 2023

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China Conducts Blended Wing Body Verification Scale Model Flight

An X-48B Blended Wing Body aircraft at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, CA | NASA

Aviation Week reports that China has flown a “verification scale model of the BWB-330 blended wing body concept aircraft” designed by Northwestern Polytechnic University and aircraft manufacturer Comac. The model represents “a future civil airliner design that would carry 300-330 passengers.”
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