Boeing and NASA will pause work on the X-66 Sustainable Flight Demonstrator, an experimental plane design featuring 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 toward developing thin-wing technology that had been central to X-66 ...

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 ...

The wings on the 787 Dreamliner, Boeing’s most valuable and expensive plane, come from Japan, for example. The door plug that blew out, mid-air, from a 737 Max in January 2024 came from a ...

Boeing is actively assessing options to re-market affected aircraft. Q1 revenue reached $19.5 billion, an 18% increase, primarily from higher commercial deliveries. Core loss per share improved to ...

Boeing has proposed focusing NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project on long, thin-wing technology ... from the experimental program to the 777X and 737 Max development effort ahead ...

At this year’s Aircraft Interiors Expo, Boeing took the opportunity to explore some new options ... The airframer showed customisable ceiling panels over a notional doors 2 entryway in its 777X cabin ...