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The Boeing X-48 is an American experimental unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) built to investigate the characteristics of blended wing body (BWB) aircraft. Boeing designed the X-48 and two examples were built by Cranfield Aerospace in the UK. Boeing began flight testing the X-48B version for NASA in 2007. The X-48B was later modified into the X-48C ...
English: The X-48C Hybrid Wing Body aircraft flies over Rogers Dry Lake on Feb. 28, 2013, from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Calif. The long boom protruding from between the tails is part of the aircraft's parachute-deployment flight termination system.
Airlines commonly order aircraft with special features or options, but Boeing builds certain models specifically for a particular customer. The Boeing 707-138B was a shortened-fuselage, long-range model only sold to Qantas. The Boeing 757-200M was a single-example model built for Royal Nepal Airlines (now called Nepal Airlines). This plane ...
In response to a series of cost overruns for the F-35 fighter jet, Trump said on Thursday he has asked Boeing to 'price-out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet.'
Boeing received a $3.9-billion contract in July 2018 to build two 747-8 aircraft for use as Air Force One, set for delivery by December 2024. Boeing said it wanted extra time of about a year to ...
X-45: Boeing DARPA, USAF 2002 Unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) [58] X-46: Boeing DARPA, USN 2003 Unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV). [59] Naval use. Canceled, never flew. X-47A Pegasus: Northrop Grumman DARPA, USN 2003 Unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) [60] Naval use. X-47B: Northrop Grumman DARPA, USN 2011 UCAV Naval use. X-47C: Northrop ...
Four days after she officially ascended on January 1, the notorious 737-9 Max door-plug blowout on Air Alaska flight 1282 over Portland tanked Boeing's share price, and forced management and the ...
Boeing X-40 [217] Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar 51-8037 [218] Martin Marietta SV-5J – configured as X-24A [219] Martin Marietta X-24B 66‐13551 [220] North American X-15 56-6671 [221] [222] [82] Apollo 15 Command Module; Gemini B experimental capsule for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory; KH-7 Gambit reconnaissance satellite; KH-8 Gambit 3; KH ...