Boeing’s X-48B Pushes Boundaries of UAVs, Future Transport Designs
Credit: CARLA THOMAS/NASA
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 proof-of-concept UAV demonstrators such as X‑36, X-45 and X-47. However, the X-48B, which flew for the first...
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