Making the wings on passenger jets thinner and longer can go a long way toward reducing drag and making them more efficient, but they vibrate like crazy. Engineers at NASA and Boeing are now tackling ...
Today, aircraft wings are increasingly designed to prioritize stealth characteristics over raw speed—giving them a smooth, unbroken connection to the aircraft’s main fuselage. The wing of a fighter ...
The X-66 vision and its ultra-long span NASA and Boeing initially wrapped their thin-wing ambitions into a full aircraft, the X-66, a sustainable experimental airliner that reimagined the familiar ...