Originally Posted by
chopper2004
In 2005 where I worked we put together the tooling and built the composite BWB for Cranfield (UAV dept) who were sub for Boeing Phantom Works as they originally went to NASA to build and supply the bodies but could not so they went to Cranfield instead.
They were below me on the hangar floor. As i recall these drop Test bodies were used to evaluate crashworthiness and ended up flown at NASA Armstrong (Dryden / Edwards) as fsr as I recall.
We may know each other? Or again, maybe not...
Two air-vehicles were built... one was mostly a wind-tunnel fixture, but LSV2 flew quite a number of times, before being modified to X-48C standard (two engines and different fins)