The X-66 program heavily modified a McDonnell Douglas MD-90 aircraft to demonstrate a truss-braced version of the thin wing. The experimental aircraft was at the forefront of NASA ...

Boeing and NASA are to pause development of the X-66 flight demonstrator to focus their research on the evolution of long, ...

Based on a heavily modified McDonnell Douglas MD-90, the X-66 was intended to demonstrate a truss-braced version of the thin wing at full scale. The experimental aircraft formed the flagship of NASA’s ...

Boeing this summer will stop developing NASA's X-66 truss-braced-wing demonstrator aircraft and shift its focus specifically ...

It could be said that the invention of the airplane is the ultimate triumph of mankind's ingenuity over the forces of nature. Despite our own lack of wings, we took to the skies and made it one of ...

An airplane clipped another stationary airplane's wings on Thursday at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.

No injuries were reported. The wing tip of an aircraft heading to Charleston, South Carolina, struck a plane en route to New York City about shortly before 1 p.m., according to a statement from ...

The wings of two American Airline planes clipped on the taxiway ... They journeyed to New York via a different aircraft. Representative Grace Meng shared this video on X to provide an update on the ...

Serving in Congress has come with some once in a lifetime experiences… like just now while stationary on the runway at DCA, another plane just bumped into our wing. Heading back to the gate ...

said he was able to board a new aircraft about 3:30 p.m. He said the experience had stunned him. “I saw the plane zipping by thinking it was going fast, when it struck the wing of our plane ...