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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.
Boeing 1928 Never 1 XP-8: Experimental fighter Boeing 1928 Never 1 P-12/F4B: Biplane fighter Boeing 1928 [4] 1930 586 XP-15 / XF5B-1: Prototype monoplane fighter Boeing Essentially a monoplane version of the Boeing P-12, differing in having the lower wing omitted and in having all-metal construction as well as altered ailerons.
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 ...
Boeing Co has told the U.S. Air Force that the price of the next-generation presidential aircraft could rise, and sought more time to deliver it, citing difficulties with COVID-19 and a ...
The Boeing Bird of Prey is an American black project aircraft, intended to demonstrate stealth technology. It was developed by McDonnell Douglas and Boeing in the 1990s. [ 1 ] The company provided $67 million of funding for the project; [ 1 ] it was a low-cost program compared to many other programs of similar scale.
The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner debacle is a gift that keeps on giving, going back to the initial launch date of the aircraft and the many times that date was missed. CEO Jim McNerney ...
A secondary range specification dictates a two-hour loiter capability at a radius of 1,850 kilometers (1,000 NMI). In the summer of 2003, Northrop Grumman formed an alliance with Lockheed Martin as a subcontractor to help develop the "X-47B", a follow-on to the X-47 that would compete against Boeing efforts.