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 ...

November 1, 2006 Ground testing of the X-48B Blended Wing Body (BWB) concept will start in the near future in preparation for flight testing early next year. The X-48B ground and flight testing will ...

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 ...

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 ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE – Looking like something out of a Batman movie, a small, unmanned experimental aircraft is taking to the skies over the Antelope Valley. Continuing the tradition of X planes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boeing and NASA will retest the X-48B blended wing body at high angles of attack following installation of new control software designed to tackle unexpected oscillations encountered during stall ...

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 ...

The Boeing X-48B blended wing body (BWB) scale-model demonstrator, called Low Speed Vehicle 2 (LSV2), or ship two, was set to fly the second in a series of seven flights with slats retracted on 11 ...

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 ...