The Boeing X-48 is an American experimental unmanned aerial vehicle built to investigate the characteristics of blended wing body aircraft. Boeing Phantom Works developed the concept in cooperation with the NASA Langley Research Center, Boeing designed the X-48 and two examples were built by Cranfield Aerospace in the United Kingdom. Boeing began flight testing the X-48B for NASA in 2007, with the first flight on 20 July 2007, and the X-48B was later modified into the X-48C, which first flew on 7 August 2012 and was flight tested until April 2013. Boeing and NASA planned a larger blended wing body demonstrator capable of transonic flight, although no updates have been provided since 2013.
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