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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.
A rendering of the US Air Force blended wing body aircraft project. A blended wing body (BWB), also known as blended body, hybrid wing body (HWB) or a lifting aerofoil fuselage, [1] is a fixed-wing aircraft having no clear dividing line between the wings and the main body of the craft. [2]
The Flight Test Museum Foundation was founded in 1983 by Carol Odgers, Chuck Yeager, Robert Cardenas, and William J. Knight. [3] A 335-acre site on Rosamond Boulevard was given to the foundation in 1984 to build a museum, but construction was delayed for many years.
Boeing announced in October that it planned to cut 10% of its workforce, about 17,000 jobs, in the coming months. Boeing issues layoff notices to 400-plus workers as it begins drastic cuts Skip to ...
Boeing's corporate planes collectively flew about 4,500 hours across some 1,800 flights in 2023, according to data from the aviation-tracking website JetSpy. That amounts to about $14 million in ...
Run through Boeing's Phantom Works division, the program researched, designed and prototyped new aircraft designs which would reduce energy consumption and noise production. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Initially funded by a grant from NASA of $90,000, the aircraft design moves away from the usual tube-and-wing design and instead has the wings blended into ...
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