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USAF Picks JetZero for Blended Wing Body Demonstrator

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, August 16th, 2023

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USAF Picks JetZero for Blended Wing Body Demonstrator

Ravi Chaudhary, assistant secretary of the Air Force for energy, installations, and environment, discusses the Blended Wing Body demonstrator at an Air and Space Forces Association forum on Aug. 16.

The U.S. Air Force has chosen California-based JetZero, founded in 2020, to build and fly a Blended Wing Body (BWB) demonstrator to inform future cargo aircraft and the Next Generation Air Refueling System (NGAS), both of which are to operate in high-threat environments over long distances, including the Pacific theater. "This is a prototype demonstration project that is intended to accelerate the next generation of large aircraft the Air Force needs in the future," U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall…

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