Friday, March 28, 2008

VIDEO: NASA's X-48B Blended Wing Body is World's Largest Remote Controlled Plane

With a whopping 21-foot wingspan, NASA's X-48B Blended Wing Body is the world's largest remote controlled plane. In the video, you'll see "the perfect flight of Skyray 48, the Boeing-NASA prototype of what could be the future of commercial aviation." Continue reading to watch. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Thanks to its design, designs derived from the X-48B will have less power consumption and less emissions, while increasing carrying capacity and speed compared with current cargo and passenger aircraft
[via Gizmodo - NASA]

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[Source: Tech Blog]