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The X-66 program heavily modified a McDonnell Douglas MD-90 aircraft to demonstrate a truss-braced version of the thin wing.
Transonic truss-braced wing project is on hold after Boeing proposes to investigate a simpler, thin-wing design.
Boeing and NASA are to pause development of the X-66 flight demonstrator to focus their research on the evolution of long, ...
Learn more about Boeing's proposal to redirect the focus of NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project to long, thin-wing ...
Boeing this summer will stop developing NASA's X-66 truss-braced-wing demonstrator aircraft and shift its focus specifically ...
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 and NASA will pause work on the X-66 Sustainable Flight Demonstrator, an experimental plane design featuring long, ...
Boeing (BA) will pause development of its X-66 Sustainable Flight Demonstrator and redeploy some of the engineers on the program to the 777X ...
A Boeing-built X-66 full-span model underwent testing in the 11-Foot Transonic Unitary Plan Facility at NASA's Ames Research Center in ...
For the task at hand NASA partnered not long ago with aerospace giant Boeing to build a demonstrator aircraft that's known as the X-66. The plane will not be built from the ground up, but will ...
NASA designed temporary floorboards for the MD-90 aircraft to use while it is transformed into the X-66 experimental ...