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1 posted on 02/01/2007 8:37:32 AM PST by BipePilot
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To: BipePilot

Your title had to be changed to the original published title. Please do not alter any published editorial or article.

Thanks.


2 posted on 02/01/2007 8:39:59 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: BipePilot
....blended wing" design looking a lot like the old flying wing experiments of the 50's.

And the B-2 bomber of today.

At other sites, I read the 797 'story' quite awhile ago. While I'm certain that it could be done, the airport infrastructure changes required would make a passenger version problematic.

Witness the heartburn over handling the A380's load.

3 posted on 02/01/2007 8:51:04 AM PST by GoldCountryRedneck ("Idiocy - Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers" - despair.com)
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" research on the blended wing body design as a potential military aircraft"

Boeing's 747 was a military design as well but "lost" to Lockheed's C-5.

4 posted on 02/01/2007 8:54:19 AM PST by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: BipePilot

OK, who's got the "picture" of a Federation starship being produced at a Boeing facility?


5 posted on 02/01/2007 9:24:35 AM PST by Ancesthntr
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To: BipePilot

Excuse me, but, I just picked up the latest Popular Mechanics, p21, and they have an article on just this plane with a photo of a 21 ft (wingspan) model!!

It is called the X48B and it is announced this model will under go tests at Dryden soon.


6 posted on 02/01/2007 9:30:07 AM PST by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty: The Pendleton 8...down to 2...GWB, we hardly knew ye...)
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To: BipePilot

one big problem:

Anyone else out there who MUST have a window seat... like myself? (Or else I'll puke on yer lap).

just curious....


8 posted on 02/01/2007 9:47:44 AM PST by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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