Imagine for wide body jets

[hesham]

Hi,

http://www.irc.umbc.edu/pdfs/WBJETS.pdf

 

[KJ_Lesnick]

I think at that point it would be better just to blend the fuselage in with the wings...

The BWB is a great idea in my opinion actually


KJ

 

[robunos]

i think the main problem with this concept, and with BWB aircraft, is the difficulty of resizing them, to vary passenger capacity. with a conventional airliner, if you want to add seats, it's a fairly simple matter to stretch the fuselage, likewise to reduce capacity, it's not to difficult to shrink the plane.
i think it would be much harder to to this with a BWB, the whole fuselage would need re-shaping.
just my two bobsworth.

cheers,
Robin.

 

[KJ_Lesnick]

Good point.


KJ Lesnick

 

[Simon666]

See also: United States Patent 5769358

 

[blackkite]

I think it's little difficult to design non circular cross section pressurized cabin without weight increase. This fuselage must have pillar or wall in the cabin to keep pressure tight strength and skin thickness is larger than cylindrical fuselage. Elevator is located tail of the fuselage to reduse drag same as JAXA's SST.