Blended wing-body visionary James McDonnell sculpted the XP-67 in the early 1940s, promising a speed of more than 400 mph. Boeing Damn Continental engines. No matter how advanced an airframe is ...

The wartime RFP asked aerospace manufacturers for a fast, high-flying, long-range interceptor ... The aircraft, designated the XP-67 Bat (or alternatively, “Moonbat”), was conceptually advanced.

[Photo: U.S. Air Force] At first glance, the XP-67 has the appearance of an aerodynamic study. With a semi-blended-wing body, a laminar-flow airfoil, and rounded, filleted junctions where ...

JetZero's Blended Wing Body demonstrator gained Air Force ... the 1930s and protoypes in the 1940s including the McDonnell XP-67. The Westland Dreadnought was the first blended wing body aircraft ...

The XP-67 Moonbat One of James McDonnell's early concepts, the XP-67 Moonbat was a blended-wing-body design whose performance, thanks to anemic engines, was stamped FAIL. But get a load of the ...