Patent ID: 8104717
Filing Date: 2012-01-31
Classification: B64C,Y02T

Abstract:
1. An air transport comprising: a blended wing body having a scalloped underside shaped to smoothly curve from an underside of a wing downward toward an underside of the fuselage and to smoothly curve upward from the underside of the fuselage to an underside of an opposite wing, wherein the scalloped underside comprises at least one depression therein, the at least one depression having an outer surface to receive at least an upper portion and a front portion of a cargo pod so that when the cargo pod is loaded to the air transport and the at least the upper portion and front portion of the cargo pod is submerged within the at least one depression, the loaded cargo pod precludes an air passage way between an upper surface of the cargo pod and the scalloped underside of the air transport, and such that when the cargo pod is not loaded, the outer surface of the at least one depression provides an aerodynamic surface suitable for flight without an attached cargo pod.