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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He later earned a bachelor’s degree at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and became a private pilot who performed in air shows and is qualified to fly experimental and ex-military aircraft ... for ...

On April 6, 1965, NASA launched the world's first commercial communications satellite into orbit. The satellite was named Intelsat 1 and nicknamed the "Early Bird." It was built by Hughes Aircraft ...

Two-time space traveler and billionaire Jared Isaacman, president Trump’s nominee to be the next NASA administrator, will ...

Sonic booms proved to be a bust for commercial supersonic aircraft, which were banned from flying over the continental United States in 1973. But NASA’s newest X-plane, the X-59 QueSST ...

The NASA X-43, known only to those audacious ... Today's supersonic research could be tomorrow's commercial flights. Imagine hopping on a plane after breakfast in New York and landing in Tokyo ...