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

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 ...

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

Observations from high-flying aircraft revealed that thunderclouds act as natural particle accelerators, emitting energetic ...

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

For the task at hand NASA partnered not long ago with aerospace giant Boeing to build a demonstrator aircraft that's known ... might inform the creation of a new family of single-aisle airliners ...

Joby aircraft to study winds shaped by terrain and the aircraft itself Joby features six rotors for vertical takeoffs and tilt to provide lift The second array was ...

When you're testing a cutting-edge NASA aircraft, you need specialized tools to conduct tests and capture data—but if those tools need maintenance, you need to wait until they're fixed. Unless you ...

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 ...

NASA’s new antenna concept is built from an aerogel ... The antenna itself “looks like a honeycomb but lays flat on an aircraft’s surface,” reducing drag. Notably, the aerogel, one of ...

Last time we checked in with Whisper Aero, we found this aviation-focused company deep into a side quest, building and ...

For years, NASA has looked at how wind shaped by terrain, including buildings in urban areas, can affect new types of aircraft. The latest test, which is gathering data from a Joby Aviation ...