Future of aviation - Airplane with wings and body blended

The international transport and logistics company cargo-partner has supported the development of a manned blended wing body.

The aim of the project is to use new and innovative technologies from the aircraft industry like fibre composites, blended wing body aerodynamics and environmentally friendly drive systems for flying with low emissions. Because of the blended wing body geometry the air drag will be reduced and therefore the power requirement as well as the economical running costs will be lowered for about approx. 25%.

Stefan Krauter, owner of the cargo-partner group, supports an Air Cargo project group consisting of academic organizations in Hamburg and industry partners with the implementation of a manned blended wing body.

The BWB-X industry consortium consists of some partners and is coordinated by Prof. Werner Granzeier.

The total estimated time of the project will be 5 years and is divided into several steps from the first draft to the realisation. After successful flight tests with unmanned blended wing bodies the evidence should be submitted that the BWB-X is well navigatable from human hand.

- The project of a manned blended wing body for the research and the implementation of the newest technologies, techniques and system applications will be developed for the first time with the help of academic institutions, supporting and interested companies and some groups of students - Prof. Werner Granzeier, coordinator of the industry consortium, notices.

The Austrian logistician Stefan Krauter stays in contact with the department of automotive engineering and aircraft construction in Hamburg since some time and supported already in the past the BWB-AC 20.30 project as well as a group of students from the faculty technology and informatics from the HAW Hamburg which were engaged in developing a turbo prop airliner.