As an amateur aviation designer, I've always designed with the whole, "if it looks good, it will fly good" mentality. Engineers comment that this methodology is TLAR, or The Looks About Right.
I really like how the X-48B looks with its blended wing/body design. As you can imagine, internal volumes are huge with a design like this, and performance is excellent as well.
This is a small RPV test vehicle that's flying at Dryden. Very cool stuff. If I could have been alive and present at any point/period in time, I would have been at Edwards in the 50's and 60's when real flight testing was going on at a pace that was providing breakthroughs almost daily.
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