Blended Wing Body Completes Phase-1Tests

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A NASA Dryden, Air Force Research Laboratory and Boeing Phantom Works team has finished its first phase of flight tests on the subscale X-48B blended wing body aircraft at the Dryden Flight Research Center. The team is studying the structural, aerodynamic and operational advantages of the Blended Wing Body concept, a cross between a conventional plane and a flying wing design. The 8.5 percent scale, remotely piloted X-48B is dynamically scaled to fly much like the full-size aircraft would fly.

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