New Tests Pending For X-48 Flying Wing

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center expects to enter a second phase of flight tests of Boeing’s tailless flying-wing X-48B as early as next week. Those tests are a prelude to introduction of a revised version of the hybrid-wing aircraft in about a year that will be more fuel...

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