JetZero Unveils Midmarket Airliner And Air Force Tanker BWB Plan

Z-5 in flight

Partnering with Northrop Grumman, JetZero has proposed the Z-5 for the U.S. Air Force’s program to build a large-scale advanced tanker-transport demonstrator.

Credit: JetZero
Has the time for the blended wing body finally arrived? JetZero thinks so, and the California startup has emerged from stealth mode to unveil a multimission design targeting the midsize commercial and military tanker-transport markets. First appearing as a concept in the late 1980s and studied on...
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