Talk:Blended wing body

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[edit] Removed from article

The following section was in the middle of the article:

• The first example of a BWB design is generally credited to be the Junkers G.38 which first flew in 1929 for Luft Hansa (present day Lufthansa). This aircraft, the largest land plane in the world when it first flew, seated passengers not only in the central fuselage but also in the wing structures. At a time when competing aircraft, like the Ford Trimotor, could carry ten to twelve passengers, the Junkers carried over thirty.

I have removed it, as the Junkers G.38 clearly did not fit the design concepts which currently define BWB aircraft. Georgewilliamherbert 01:42, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] B-1B and Tu-160 don't belong

In my opinion, we should remove the B-1B and Tu-160 from the See Also list... they're too much a conventional aircraft to fit in the BWB category.

I will wait a few days for opinions, but intend to remove them later this week. Georgewilliamherbert 21:15, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:BWB-Composite.png

This was deleted per discussion at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/2007 July 12#Image:BWB-Composite.png. I've only commented it out from the article in the hopes that the non-free Boeing image that was in there can be replaced with a free image instead and the image re-uploaded. howcheng {chat} 17:49, 17 July 2007 (UTC)