Re: Quiet Airliners of the Future?

On 12 Sep 2005 15:55:39 -0700, "Ben Hallert" <ben.hallert@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote in <1126565739.522300.223670@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>::

>There's been a lot of work over the years at Boeing on the Blended Wing
>Body, I wonder if this is the same airplane, just retasked as a quiet
>plane as well as a fuel efficient/large one.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blended_Wing_Body
>http://funimg.pchome.com.tw/img_upload/PLANE/i/t/20050307_itoddchu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Jack Northrop knew in the early days of aviation, before 1927, that
the path of aircraft evolution was necessarily going to eliminate the
empennage. After successfully designing a tailless bomber*, he
conceived of flying wing passenger airliners:
http://www.warbirdforum.com/paxwing.htm

* http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/fta/fta198.htm
.