[![Lift Airbus vs Blended Wing][1]][1] - The Burnelli machines had an airfoil shaped fuselage; - some indicate near 10% of lift in a 21 century airliner comes from fuselage; 'Flying Wing' concept is old, and still attracts many; - bottom of SR-71 looks shapen as a high speed race boat; - at very high speeds, air is thick, not as a brick, but as 'marmelade', it's a Reynolds Number affair, this figure, you know, expresses relations of inertia and viscosity forces inside a fluid. Would a flat bottomed fuselage add even more lift than the regular round section, increasing the overall fuel economy of an airplane? Does the concept deserve Aerodynamic Wind Tunnel testing? [![Proposed shape for fuselage, fins may act as 'Winglets'][2]] [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/t6RA1.png [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/wyrf4.jpg