The AD-1 looked like a mistake the moment its wing began to swing. Instead of staying symmetrical like every normal airplane, NASA’s strange little jet could pivot its single wing sideways in flight, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA is helping accelerate the future of advanced air mobility (AAM) by testing a unique model wing that could shape the next ...
NASA has pushed a small research jet to 144 mph while it was still glued to the runway, using a radical new wing design that aims to make future airliners far more fuel efficient. The high-speed taxi ...
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 ...
As the first major piloted NASA X-plane to fly in a generation and the first crewed, purpose-built U.S. high-speed research aircraft since the X-15 of the 1960s, the X-59 low-boom ...