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Little X-Plane Pushes the Bottom Edge of the Envelope

Posted by Matt Fisher on October 30, 2009 at 1:06pm

Flight test programs at Edwards Air Force Base and NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center usually are off-limits to outsiders, but we got a peek at one of its coolest programs, the X-48B, when the Air Force recently threw open the gates for an open house.MORE: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/10/x-plane/

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Tim Trueman November 2, 2009 at 6:22pm

I was thinking that was the U2 nose actually…
IKE November 2, 2009 at 4:09am

U2's fuselage doesn't extend behind the vertical stabilizer, according to this: there is an SR-71 on display at Dryden "SR-71A #17980 - On display at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center as #844" It is one of the two Blackbirds NASA used for research in the late 90's
Tim Trueman October 31, 2009 at 9:47am

Yeah U2 was what I suspected but it just seems so tall compared to that Global Hawk (which isn't that short).
IKE October 31, 2009 at 3:13am

Could it be a SR-71? The color, size and shape (as far as I can see) is similar. It stopped flying about 10 years ago but maybe it is a huge memorabilia in the Dryden hangars.
Tim Trueman October 30, 2009 at 10:03pm

"Photograph of the last photo"? Haha…it's past my bedtime clearly…
Tim Trueman October 30, 2009 at 9:39pm

What's the black plane in the photograph of the last photo?
Cronselaar October 30, 2009 at 1:23pm

:) Not to peewee on the parade... Details of the plane was out way earlier this year... Even in PM
Very cool none the less

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