February 1, 2008
Volume 23, Issue 2
Serving the aerospace
industry since 1986
X-48B demonstrator
completes eighth
flight in test series
NASA photograph by Carla Thomas
The unique X-48B Blended Wing Body subscale demonstrator banks over desert scrub at...
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February 1, 2008
Volume 23, Issue 2
Serving the aerospace
industry since 1986
X-48B demonstrator
completes eighth
flight in test series
NASA photograph by Carla Thomas
The unique X-48B Blended Wing Body subscale demonstrator banks over desert scrub at Edwards
Air Force Base, Calif.
The Boeing-built X-48B successfully completed its eighth flight of its flight
test program Jan.
31, 2008.
Among the test points completed during the flight were airspeed
calibrations, steady-heading sideslips, and roll and pitch doublets.
The 8.
5 percent scale,
remotely piloted X-48B is a cross between a conventional aircraft and a flying wing design.
Flight
tests are intended to validate the potential advantages of the blended wing body aerodynamic
concept over conventionally designed aircraft.
For more on the X-48B, see Page 8.
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Country’s largest helicopter flight school files
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