First Boeing X-48C Flight Imminent, NASA Says

Credit: Robert Wall
ATLANTA — NASA hopes to make the first flight of the reconfigured X-48C hybrid wing body demonstrator this week, possibly on Aug. 3. NASA Environmentally Responsible Aviation project manager Fayette Collier says flight testing is imminent. The X-48C is a heavily modified, twin-engine version of the...

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