Blended Wing Body Passenger Airplanes and the End of Winged Tubes

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Blended Wing Body Passenger Airplanes And The End Of Winged Tubes

Ask someone to picture an airplane and they’re likely to think of what is essentially a tube with wings and a stabilizing tail tacked onto one end of said tube. Yet it is also no secret that …

On the landing pattern at North Perry (KHWO) in South Florida

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Overflying North Perry (KHWO) in South Florida, coming in for a landing

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Landing at North Perry (KHWO)

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DC7B N836D flying overhead

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Grumman Mallard at Miami Seaplane Base

Note: this image is old (from 2010). This place used to be the Miami base for Chalk’s Airlines flying these Mallards to the Bahamas daily. A wonderful sight to see them take off from water amongst the cruise ships. Sadly they had an accident and went under over 20 years ago.

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Grumman Mallard at Miami Seaplane Base

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Frontier Airbus at La Guardia

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1960 Beech D50C at KMTH

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1960 Beech D50C at KMTH

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1960 BEECH D50C

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Cirrus SR20

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Hawker Sea Hawk FB5 at Duxford

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Hawker Hunter in Duxford

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Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer at Duxford

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Gloster Meteor F8 at Duxford

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Ultralite

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Piper Super Cub banner tow plane overhead

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OId Aerolineas Argentinas leased Boeing 747

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Waco YMF (1988)

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