X-48C Hybrid - Blended Wing Body Demonstrator
Earth and sky met as the X-48C Hybrid Wing Body aircraft flew over Edwards Air Force Base on Feb. 28, 2013, from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA. The long boom protruding from between the tails is part of the aircraft's parachute-deployment flight termination system.
- Date
- 2013-02-28
- Photographer / author
- Carla Thomas
- Collection
- AFRC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"X-48C Hybrid - Blended Wing Body Demonstrator" (2013-02-28). NASA/AFRC/Carla Thomas. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/ED13-0057-24Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 25692.
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