Although its main area of expertise is outer space, the American agency NASA is knee-deep in aviation as well. Just as you’re reading this the organization is involved in projects meant to create new ...

Boeing will study the certification challenges of its Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) ultra-efficient airliner concept as part of a new phase of work following wind tunnel tests that prove the ...

The extremely thin and elongated wing configuration of the transonic truss-braced wing (TTBW) model posed significant challenges to researchers testing the concept in NASA Ames Research Center’s ...

On Tuesday, Boeing gave us a glimpse into the future. The aircraft manufacturer revealed a new aircraft wing design it’s been working on with NASA through the Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research ...

The race to come up with ways to cut back on fuel consumption in the aviation industry is giving birth to all sorts of wacky designs, in terms of both engines and airframes. One of them is the ...

Artist concept of commercial aircraft families with a Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) configuration from the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator (SFD) project. Photo Credit: Boeing The National ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA and Boeing are pausing the development of the X-66 full-scale Sustainable Flight Demonstrator. Instead, they will re-focus ...

Boeing has taken the wraps of its latest Transonic Truss-Braced Wing, a new configuration that the company says offers an unprecedented efficiency at Mach 0.80 speeds during flight. The new design ...

Boeing has taken the wraps off of a new ultra-thin wing concept designed to improve the performance of transonic aircraft traveling at speeds of Mach 0.8 (593 mph, 955 km/h). The latest version of the ...

NASA's Sustainable Flight Demonstrator full-scale single-aisle research plane designed to explore net-zero aviation emissions and faster, more economical passenger flight near the speed of sound has ...