In May 2006, the X-48B demonstrator was still undergoing testing in the full-scale wind tunnel at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia. The Boeing division responsible for the plane has a name straight out of a spy novel: Phantom Works . It's the aerospace giant's advanced R&D unit. The two subscale aircraft were built by U.K. company Cranfield Aerospace.
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