Boeing et la Nasa vont transformer un MD-90 en X-66A. Le démonstrateur étudiera l'efficacité des ailes haubanées et à fort allongement. Des tests complémentaires ont été effectués en soufflerie.
#Nasa #Boeing #MD90 #X66A

https://www.aerobuzz.fr/breves-industrie/la-nasa-teste-une-demi-maquette-du-boeing-x-66-en-soufflerie/

La Nasa teste une demi-maquette du Boeing X-66 en soufflerie - Aerobuzz

Bien que les techniciens de Boeing travaillent déjà à la transformation d’un MD-90 en X-66A expérimental, les connaissances acquises lors des récents essais en soufflerie avec un demi-modèle peuvent encore être intégrées au projet et donner lieu à des modifications structurelles. La Nasa a terminé une série d’études en soufflerie avec un demi-modèle de l’avion

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@heiseonline ergänzend: fliegen soll die #X66a erstmals 2028 und durch die höher angebrachten Tragflächen besteht auch die Möglichkeit sparsamere (größere) Triebwerke zu montieren, die zb ein sehr viel größeres Nebenstromverhältniss haben.
https://www.flugrevue.de/zivil/geplantes-testflugzeug-von-boeing-und-nasa-transonic-truss-braced-wing-demonstrator-heisst-nun-x-66a/
Geplantes Testflugzeug von Boeing und NASA: Transonic Truss-Braced Wing heißt nun X-66A

Die US Air Force hat dem geplanten Flugdemonstrator von NASA und Boeing eine eigene Bezeichnung zugewiesen.

#NASA and #Boeing’s newest #Xplane wants to save the planet
#X66A is the first commercial #aircraft design created by NASA specifically to address efficiency. A one-off created under the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, this single-aisle plane takes its design cues from gliders, with the wings perched on top of the fuselage with struts holding the wings in place. NASA estimates testing of X-66A will wrap up later in 2020s, with tires on tarmac sometime in 2030s.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2023/2/2/23582152/nasa-x-plane-boeing-air-force-sustainable-aircraft
NASA and Boeing will build a new X-plane, the X-66A, to fight aviation greenhouse gas emissions

The space agency has a plan to “skip a generation” of passenger aircraft design to fight climate change.

Vox

#NASA, US Air Force unveil new X-plane — the X-66A: https://www.space.com/nasa-us-air-force-new-x-plane-x66a-named

The #X66A could inform a new generation of sustainable single-aisle aircraft, planes that currently operated as the backbone of passenger-based air travel... https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/next-generation-experimental-aircraft-becomes-nasa-s-newest-x-plane

#technology #cool

NASA, US Air Force unveil new X-plane — the X-66A — to test wild wing design for fuel-efficient flight

The X-66A could "shape the future of aviation."

Space
"Next Generation Experimental Aircraft Becomes NASA’s Newest X-Plane", press release by @NASA/@NASAAero - #NASA & #Boeing Sustainable Flight Demonstrator is now X-66A. It will test theorized efficiency of Transonic Truss-Braced Wing design. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/next-generation-experimental-aircraft-becomes-nasa-s-newest-x-plane #X66A #aviation #avgeek
Next Generation Experimental Aircraft Becomes NASA’s Newest X-Plane

NASA and Boeing said Monday the aircraft produced through the agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project has been designated by the U.S. Air Force as the X-66A.

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