A team from NASA and Boeing completed the first phase of flight testing of its blended wing body design that could represent the airliner of the future. The airplane is based on a design where the ...
November 1, 2006 Ground testing of the X-48B Blended Wing Body (BWB) concept will start in the near future in preparation for flight testing early next year. The X-48B ground and flight testing will ...
Flight test programs at Edwards Air Force Base and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center usually are off-limits to outsiders, but we got a peek at one of its coolest programs, the X-48B, when the Air ...
As part of the growing trend toward more affordable, unmanned X-planes, Boeing’s distinctive X‑48B blended wing body (BWB) follows the well-traveled path of other subscale, unconventional ...
EDWARDS, Calif. – NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center and The Boeing Co. are expanding the flight envelope for the X-48B blended wing body research aircraft. Flight tests with the 500-pound, remotely ...
The X-48B is the latest experimental X-Plane and is a joint venturebetween NASA, US Air Force Research Laboratory and The Boeing Company.The vehicle was on view at a recent open day at the NASA Dryden ...
EDWARDS, Calif. — NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., provided critical support for the first flight July 20 of the X-48B. The 21-foot wingspan, 500-pound remotely piloted test ...
NASA has released the first video of the remote controlled X-48B Blended Wing Body 8.5-percent scale model. At 21-foot wingspan, it is the largest surviving RC model in the world, easily crushing the ...
The Boeing X-48B blended wing body (BWB) scale-model demonstrator, called Low Speed Vehicle 2 (LSV2), or ship two, was set to fly the second in a series of seven flights with slats retracted on 11 ...
Stall behavior is considered the most critical control aspect of the unconventionally shaped blended wing/body, and Boeing and NASA are preparing to test the X-48B BWB research aircraft with revised ...
The Boeing X-48B Blended Wing Body (BWB) completed first flight on 21 July at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The Boeing and NASA-sponsored X-48B programme ...
Click to viewHere’s a pic of the new X-48B, Boeing’s Blended Wing Body research aircraft in flight for the first time. The prototype, developed by Boeing Phantom Works with cooperation from NASA and ...
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