Editing Fuselage (section)

== Wing integration ==
"[[Flying wing]]" aircraft, such as the [[Northrop YB-49|Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing]] and the [[B-2 Spirit|Northrop B-2 Spirit bomber]] have no separate fuselage; instead what would be the fuselage is a thickened portion of the wing structure.

Conversely, there have been a small number of aircraft designs which have no separate wing, but use the fuselage to generate lift. Examples include [[NASA|National Aeronautics and Space Administration]]'s experimental [[lifting body]] designs and the [[Vought]] [[Flying Pancake|XF5U-1 Flying Flapjack]].

A [[blended wing body]] can be considered a mixture of the above. It carries the useful load in a fuselage producing lift. A modern example is [[Boeing X-48]]. One of the earliest aircraft using this design approach is [[Burnelli CBY-3]], which fuselage was airfoil shaped to produce lift.