Image of the Day: 100th Test Flight of the Boeing X-48 Blended Wing Body Aircraft

Image of the Day: 100th Test Flight of the Boeing X-48 Blended Wing Body Aircraft

November 13, 2012

Image Credit: NASA/Carla Thomas

The Aircraft subscale research aircraft made its 100th flight in late October at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

The milestone occurred Oct. 30 when the unmanned X-48C aircraft was flown on two separate 25-minute flights — the seventh and eighth flights for the X-48C since it began flying Aug. 7. Between 2007 and 2010, the aircraft, then in the X-48B configuration, made 92 flights.

Pictured here, Boeing’s X-48C Blended Wing Body research aircraft is silhouetted against the morning sky over Edwards Air Force Base on Oct. 16, 2012.