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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Boeing and NASA announced on Thursday the pause of work on the X-66A Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project. Boeing will continue to study the thin-wing technology ...

NASA designed temporary floorboards for the MD-90 aircraft to use while it is transformed into the X-66 experimental ...

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 ...