silent but could be made deadly

[Mossie]

Well, it's nice but the X-48 is just a glorified RC model, I want it BIG!

[Madoc]

Folks,

Another thing to think about with passengers in a Blended Wing Body airframe is the G-loads and roll rate motion experienced by those passengers.  The further away from the centerline of the aircraft the more intense those effects are going to be.  Even on something as "narrow" as a wide-body passenger bird, the folks sitting out at the windows get much more of a "ride" than those in the center.  A BWB passenger jet would make this much worse as those seat rows are easily four or five times as wide and / or further out from the centerline.

There are ways of minimizing those effects but not eliminating them.  That places a severe handicap on this configuration when it comes to stuffing it full of enough passengers so as to make it profitable.

Cargo, on the other hand, doesn't seem to mind such effects.  So we could eventually have BWB's handling the supra-efficient hauling of cargo with the long tube / watermelons handling the passenger end of the business.

Madoc

[Green Dragon]

Best cargo door to me would be a rear ramp under the engine area, drive an Abrahms or two in that way!
Mossie, I don't think I could be trusted with an ejection seat!

Paul Harrison