Boeing and NASA are mutually agreeing to pause development of the X-66A, according to an April 25 Seattle Times report and an April 24 Aviation Week report plus April 24 Air Current reporting.
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.
A US defense giant behind top stealth combat aircraft has a new one coming, just without a human in the cockpit. Lockheed Martin introduced the company's latest project, known as "Vectis," on Sunday ...
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Aerodynamic and structural data on the X-66 were obtained from wind tunnel tests of a 5.3%-scale model in the Transonic Unitary Plan Facility at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. Credit: ...
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Back in 2023 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced yet another program that's supposed to end with the creation of revolutionary aircraft tech. Called Speed and Runway ...
North Carolina has apparently been chosen as the location for a blended-wing-body aircraft manufacturing site, and though the company behind the plan has yet to be named, reports indicate the firm is ...