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Wind over its wing: NASA's X-66 model tests airflow
NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project concluded wind tunnel testing in the fall of 2024. Tests on a Boeing-built X-66 model were completed at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California ...
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Photographer Robert Yarnall Richie had a ringside seat to history
(Chip Richie, Robert Yarnall Richie Archive collection / Richie Media LLC) Robert Yarnall Richie captured this image of the inside of a Boeing wind tunnel in 1944.(Chip Richie, Robert Yarnall ...
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X-66 project progresses with small-scale wind-tunnel tests
Boeing and NASA have completed two initial wind-tunnel tests using small-scale models of X-66, the in-development trussed-braced-wing demonstrator. The company disclosed the milestone on 4 March ...
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Advanced Design Wind Tunnel
Western Michigan University's applied aerodynamics laboratory took over the advanced design wind tunnel from the former McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Company (now the Boeing Company at St. Louis) and had ...