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X-48C Hybrid / Blended Wing Body
X-48C Hybrid / Blended Wing Body

The remotely operated X-48C Blended Wing Body aircraft lifted off Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, CA, on…

X-48C Begins New Flight Test Phase
X-48C Begins New Flight Test Phase

The X-48C Hybrid / Blended Wing Body technology demonstrator lifted into the skies after taking off from the bed of…

Touchdown on Dry Lake
Touchdown on Dry Lake

The sub-scale X-48C Hybrid / Blended Wing Body technology demonstration aircraft touched down on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air…

X-48C Hybrid Being Prepared for its First Flight
X-48C Hybrid Being Prepared for its First Flight

Boeing Phantom Works technicians prepared the sub-scale X-48C Hybrid / Blended Wing Body technology demonstrator for its first test flight…

X-48C Hybrid / Blended Wing Body
X-48C Hybrid / Blended Wing Body

Two 89-pound-thrust turbojet engines housed in larger nacelles were one of the major modifications in the “C” version of the…

X-48C Hybrid / Blended Wing Body
X-48C Hybrid / Blended Wing Body

Here’s looking at you! – A small television camera seen through the left front window of the sub-scale X-48C Hybrid…

X-48C Rolls to a Stop on Rogers Dry Lake After Flight
X-48C Rolls to a Stop on Rogers Dry Lake After Flight

With its split ailerons deployed to increase drag and reduce speed, the X-48C Hybrid / Blended Wing Body technology demonstrator…

X-48C Deploys Split Ailerons
X-48C Deploys Split Ailerons

The remotely piloted X-48C Hybrid / Blended Wing Body technology demonstration aircraft deployed its split ailerons to increase drag and…

Shuttles Come Nose-to-Nose
Shuttles Come Nose-to-Nose

NASA’s space shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis switched locations today at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and in the process came…

Peeping Mimas
Peeping Mimas

Saturn’s moon Mimas peeps out from behind the larger moon Dione in this view from the Cassini spacecraft. Mimas (246…