X-40A Paves the Way

The X-40A demonstrator has completed a series of seven approach and landing tests at Edwards AFB, Calif., as a precursor to first flight of the larger X-37, which is to begin final assembly this summer at Boeing facilities in Palmdale, Calif. The 22-ft.-long, unpiloted X-40A was drop tested at NASA...

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