Flightglobal

Boeing enters second phase of X-48B flight trials

Boeing has completed the first in a series of increasingly risky envelope expansion flights for the X-48B blended wing body (BWB) demonstrator. The first 11 "Block 1" flights completed last year used ...
Wired

Little X-Plane Pushes Bottom Edge of the Envelope

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 ...
SpaceNews

X-48B Blended Wing Body Flight Tests Enter Second Phase

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 ...
Aviation Week

Boeing’s X-48B Pushes Boundaries of UAVs, Future Transport Designs

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 ...
Aviation Week

X-48B BWB Takes a Cautious Approach to the Stall

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 ...
Time

The X-48B

NASA, Boeing and the U.S. Air Force are teaming up to develop a Blended-Wing Body aircraft for the military The X-48B lacks the traditional tube and wing shape which has been the hallmark of aircraft ...
SpaceNews

X-48B Blended Wing Body Research Aircraft Takes First Flight

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 ...
Flightglobal

Boeing X-48B progresses to slats retracted flights

The Boeing X-48B blended wing body (BWB) scale-model demonstrator, called Low… The Boeing X-48B blended wing body (BWB) scale-model demonstrator, called Low Speed Vehicle 2 (LSV2), or ship two, was ...
EDN

Cranfield Aerospace uses antennas from Cobham Antenna Systems for Boeing X-48B prototypes

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 ...
Gizmodo

X-48B Video Shows World’s Biggest RC Model Plane in Action

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 ...
Gizmodo

First Flight of X-48B Blended Wing Body Aircraft Prototype

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 ...