It seems to be the essence of a flying wing concept that the airplane consists only of a wing profile without a fuselage and in real cool flying wing concepts the engines are also integrated into the wing: maximum uplift and minimum drag...
Now the Russian Antonov AN-124 airplanes may be flying wing concepts, too - only that the unuseful, superflous and dysfunctional parts of the huge wing were given up: the engines are still integrated very well into an imaginary "wing-fuselage" but in reality only a traditional "tube-fuselage" is left with 2 wings and 4 jet engines - so the aircraft has got even less drag and the fuselage is more usable, e.g. you could integrate side windows in it, too...
Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team
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