USAF Designates NASA Demo X-Plane X-66A

TTBW

Credit: Boeing
SAN DIEGO—NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator (SFD), a full-scale transonic truss braced wing (TTBW) design in development by Boeing for flight tests later this decade, has been designated the X-66A by the U.S. Air Force. The latest X-plane, the X-66A is the first in the almost 80-year...
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