Airbus MAVERIC blended wing jetliner

I want thinking the connie and B29 shared awing.
But the B29 and KC97 were the same plane different fuselage?.
The super Guppy is a modified KC97, so i was thinking the B29 wing still flies?

 

Correct, the Guppy and B-29 shared the same wing but the Connie had a Lockheed airfoil not a B-29 wing airfoil. Very different. The Connie wing shared the same planform concept as the P-38 but the airfoil was changed to match a heavier and slower vehicle.

 

So the B29 still flies as the guppy, amazing

 

Don't forget FiFi and Doc....

 

Yes those are museum pieces though,
The Guppy still works for a living. Maybe theres a KC97 flying freight in alaska too,

 

In effect, the B-29 fuselage is flying as well. The Tupolev Tu-95 "Bear" is the great-grandson of the Tu-4, which was the Soviet copy of the B-29, and uses a stretched version of the same fuselage, with the same diameter.

 

The B-29, KC-97, and the 377 used the BAC 117 wing section, the B-52 uses 7 sections, the KC-135 and 707 uses 4 sections, of course blended over the span. I guess that the word "section" should indicate the profile or "airfoil".

 

Seems like NASA has been working on that thing forever.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/factsheets/FS-2003-11-81-LaRC.html

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