Intel X48 Express Chipset Has Competition – Boeing X-48B
The Intel X48 Express chipset might have support for 1600MHz FSB and DDR3 memory, but it has nothing compared to the X-48B from Boeing. In the design of Boeing’s experimental X-48B aircraft, it’s hard to know where the fuselage stops and the wings begin.
In this picture from August 14, an X-48B prototype is flying over Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base in California, in its fifth trip aloft since its debut flight in mid-July. Following a sixth flight not long ago, the aircraft is now on hiatus till sometime in October as Boeing–and partners NASA and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory–perform maintenance, update software and flight control systems, and evaluate data from the first round of flights. Among the physical changes under way: engineers are taking off removable leading edges with extended slats and replacing them with slatless leading edges, NASA said.
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