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X-48 Highlights

X-48B Resumes Flight Tests at NASA Dryden

The X-48B blended wing body research aircraft performing flight test at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.

09.21.10

The Boeing / NASA X-48B Blended Wing Body research aircraft resumed flight tests with a checkout flight Sept. 21 from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.

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X-48B: Eighty Flights, Priceless Facts

X-48B in flight during phase 1 of test flights at NASA Dryden

04.05.10

A team led by NASA and The Boeing Company has completed the first phase of flight tests on the subscale X-48B blended wing body aircraft.

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Second X-48B Modified Into X-48C Configuration

Boeing's second X-48B air vehicle that has been modified into the X-48C.

02.11.10

Boeing's second X-48B air vehicle has been modified into the X-48C for research for NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation, or ERA, project.

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X-48 Features

Blended Wing Body Flies 50th
Time Magazine: X-48B One of Year's Top Inventions

Time Magazine hailed the X-48B Blended Wing Body aircraft for its innovative design and potential to transform air transportation.
Skyray 48 Takes Flight

Remotely piloted plane to demonstrate blended wing shape.
Flying Wing Design Tested

A small-scale NASA model of a Boeing flying wing concept has just finished testing at the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center.
X-48B Blended Wing-Body

Boeing Phantom Works has partnered with NASA and the Air Force Research Laboratory to study the structural, aerodynamic and operational advantages of the Blended Wing Body concept, a cross between a conventional plane and a flying wing design.

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X-48 News

Transformed X-48c Flies Successfully

08.07.12 - The remotely piloted X-48C aircraft successfully flew for the first time Tuesday at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert.
X-48B Resumes Flight Tests at NASA Dryden

09.21.10 - The Boeing / NASA X-48B Blended Wing Body research aircraft resumed flight tests with a checkout flight Sept. 21 from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
Second X-48B Modified Into X-48C Configuration

02.11.10 - Boeing's second X-48B air vehicle has been modified into the X-48C for research for NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation, or ERA, project.