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 company was also the first to use folding wingtips on a commercial aircraft, which allows the newer Boeing 777X to have larger, more fuel-efficient wings in the air, but smaller airport ...

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 ...

He told BI the airline is in talks for a third aircraft type, an extra-wide body like an Airbus A350 or Boeing 777X. Read next ...

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 ...