Blended Wing Body is a nice euphemism for Lifting Body or Lifting Fuselage!

A 78+ year-old aircraft principle of design is the plane of the future.

Vincent Justus Burnelli, our company founder, invented, conceived and patented the Burnelli Lifting Body Principle of Design.  This Principle of Design, while not well known due to political forces, remains, since 1921, the foremost technology in airframe design.

During his life, starting in 1921, Vincent Burnelli applied his Lifting-Body Principle of Design to nine aircraft (see photo section).  Some of the advantages of his design principle:

✦Improved Survivability in accidents (as demonstrated by UB-14 crash of 1935)
✴More structure around occupants = better protection

✦Reduced Fire opportunities in crash
✴Segregation of Fuel & Engines = fire less likely from engine/fuel tank failure
✴Segregation of Landing gear & Fuel = less likely fire from landing-gear collapse.

✦Fuselage contributing to lift.
✴Higher Weight Carrying Capacity
✴Lower take-off and landing speeds
✴Provides floatation in case of water landing

✦General shape of fuselage
✴Allows carrying twice the volume of similarly powered aircraft
✴Allows more passenger comfort
✴Allows access & repairs to many aircraft functions ‘in-flight’ (including landing gear).

Vincent Burnelli applied for and received a patent on this Principle of Design.  He applied for it on January 6, 1921 and received the patent on May 13, 1930.  The patent number is: 1,758,498.  The lifting body is one of the most important contributions to flight ever made and in 1944, Vincent Burnelli received the prestigious Fawcett Award for “Major Contribution to the Scientific Advancement of Aviation” recognizing his achievement.

1951 Burnelli design compared to 1995 McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) BWB design

A long litany of political suppression achieved only through corruption which is so wide-spread in the aerospace industry that it could be called a conspiracy.  This suppression has so deprived Vincent Burnelli of the ability to function in a free-market economy that he died a pauper and we, at the Burnelli Company, have no means of engaging in the free exercise of economic activity.  It is only through the help of volunteers around the world that this great injustice to taxpayers and the flying public at large is being exposed.  These volunteers have set up a web-site www.aircrash.org which exposes the entire suppression.  If you want to know more about the who, what, why, where, when and how you won’t be dissapointed in the extent of the coverage of this story.

We hope you will be interested enough to read more about this story and be moved to help by telling all who will listen about these web-sites and the information contained in them.