NASA and Boeing are pausing the development of the X-66 full-scale Sustainable Flight Demonstrator. Instead, they will re-focus their efforts on demonstrating the benefits of thin-wing technology.

For years American space agency NASA has been trying to turn its ideas for the aviation industry into a reality. The organization is actively working on projects that are meant to make flying more eco ...

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’s ...

Key Points and Summary - NASA and Grumman’s X-29 was a 1980s–90s technology demonstrator that flipped convention with forward-swept wings and canards to probe extreme maneuvering and ...

Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury suggests that future passenger aircraft could adopt a stealthy blended wing body design similar to military aircraft, offering fuel efficiency and more passenger comfort, ...

The Blended Wing Body (BWB) concept represents a transformative shift in aircraft design, merging the wing and fuselage into a single, continuous lifting surface. This integration offers substantial ...

Researchers at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland used the Glenn Icing Computational Environment (GlennICE) software ...