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NASA, Boeing pause X-66 to chase breakthrough ultra-thin wing aircraft design
The X-66 program heavily modified a McDonnell Douglas MD-90 aircraft to demonstrate a truss-braced version of the thin wing.
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Flying Wings: The Revolutionary Design That Arrived Too Soon
In the 1940s, the flying wing seemed destined to transform aviation with its sleek design and efficiency. But despite ...
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The Flying Wings of Jack Northrop that Led to the B-2 Spirit – Part One
From his youth, Jack Northrop imagined efficient all-wing aircraft so advanced that technology and power plants needed to ...
Boeing, NASA pause experimental, sustainable plane project
Boeing and NASA will pause work on the X-66 Sustainable Flight Demonstrator, an experimental plane design featuring long, ...
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Freezing the problem of futuristic planes: How scientists are beating ice on aircraft wings
Future airplanes are ditching traditional wing design for something sleeker—long ... it has to meet strict Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety standards. Boeing is teaming up with ...