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 ...

United Airlines ( NASDAQ: UAL) aims to be one of the first U.S. commercial carriers to fly passengers on a futuristic blended ...

Ground attack aircraft don't always get the same level of fame that fighter jets do, but they have long served a critical ...

United Airlines announced on April 24, 2025, that it has become an investor in JetZero, a US startup developing a ...

Aeronautical engineering is a branch of aerospace engineering that focuses on the design, construction and upkeep of aircraft and related systems.

Boeing’s problems the last six years have been legion. Tariffs could be yet another gut punch for the beleaguered company – and, given Boeing’s importance as the top US exporter, for the economy as a ...

Minot was recommended as a good place for an air base as early as the 1940s when Wesley Keller, Minot, chairman of the North ...

Like the chef of a rival restaurant, China has been closely studying the ingredients that make up U.S. aircraft carriers—and ...

From his youth, Jack Northrop imagined efficient all-wing aircraft so advanced that technology and power plants needed to ...

The stretch project could be used as an opportunity “to reengineer A220 production,” Tusa says. It may also simply be a ...

You might have noticed the metal rods that airplanes have on their wings, but do the pieces have a name? What are they for ...