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Boeing Blended Wing Body Aircraft

Posted by michael on from the meet-george-jetson dept.

pcolley writes "I love it when Science Fiction becomes reality. Boeing is nearly finished designing their super efficient Blended Wing Body (BWB) airplane. It looks like the BatJet." Boeing is considering both civilian and military roles.

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  1. Top down by The_Shadows · · Score: 3, Funny

    The top down view reminds me A LOT of a stealh bomber.

    "We've dropped off the passengers in France, now to drop off our 'packages' in northern Afganistan."

  2. Cool renderings, background info. by fm6 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here.

  3. The engineers would by dfenstrate · · Score: 5, Funny

    And -- would the average person fly in a radically new, untested airframe?

    Boeing has a solid method of both ensuring an plane's good design and ensuring the public that their plane is airworthy.

    The send the design engineers out with pretty much all the first flights. As a budding mechanical engineer, that's damn good motivation for me to make sure my plane is designed well.

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  4. Follow the trend... by cachorro · · Score: 2, Funny
    The craft gets larger, the passenger count goes up, the crew gets smaller, the fuel requirements go down.

    If this trend continues, someday everyone will be riding on a craft that no-one is flying, that uses no fuel and is too big to land anywhere.

    Oh, wait...

  5. Re:Who would fly on it? by Eccles · · Score: 3, Funny

    For one thing, the passengers are intended to be kept in compartments close to the center of the aircraft, so no window seats.

    How about a glass-bottom design, then? :-)

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  6. Batjet? by DarkHelmet · · Score: 3, Funny

    It looks like the BatJet Tonight on our featured flights, we have Batman, and Batman returns at the choosing of Michael Keaton, our honorary resident pilot.

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  7. I like this part... by CamelTrader · · Score: 3, Funny

    The obvious answer is to fit big television screens showing what is going on outside, making every seat a window seat.

    Yeah. Real obvious. except that it would be DUMB. That'll tack on quite a few dollars to your ticket, as well as take up too much room.

    What they really need to do is give the whole plane a glass bottom. Then every seat is a window seat...when you look down.

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  8. OK, "Redundant" I can accept... by fm6 · · Score: 3, Funny

    But "Funny" is just plain cruel!!!!!!

  9. Re:what exactly is the revolution here? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    wait, i need to make this a normal slashdot post:

    what, no windows? that means it wont crash all the time.

    Well, maybe M$ has been delaying the plane, bekuz it wont have windowz.