Manufacturer proposes to instead focus its efforts on developing thin-wing technology, which it believes may have broader ...

Boeing and NASA will pause work on the X-66 Sustainable Flight Demonstrator, an experimental plane design featuring long, ...

Learn more about Boeing's proposal to redirect the focus of NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project to long, thin-wing ...

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

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

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

Boeing and NASA will pause work on a new, experimental aircraft design meant to deliver more sustainable options for the future of aviation.

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 ...

We're still a long way from seeing the TTBW X-66 take to the sky with its weird wings, as NASA only began ... crowded segment in commercial aviation. That is, of course, if aircraft makers decide ...

Boeing and NASA announced on Thursday the pause of work on the X-66A Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project. Boe ...

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 NASA and Boeing Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) X-66 aircraft demonstrator. In addition to designing the FCU, Astronics will collaborate closely with project stakeholders to support ...