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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. Re:the wankel by elmegil · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Not enough torque.

    What exactly are you smoking? I could do 0 to 60 like a bat out of hell with my parents' 1972 WAGON (albeit a very SMALL wagon). There was plenty of torque in that baby, to the point where it put everything else in its class at the time to shame.

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