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Boeing, NASA rain-check X-66 evolution to focus on long, thin-wing development
Boeing and NASA are to pause development of the X-66 flight demonstrator to focus their research on the evolution of long, ...
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Boeing Tells NASA Transonic Truss-Braced Wing Aircraft Is Not Such a Good Idea After All
American aerospace Boeing decided to put on hold the creation of the X-66 transonic truss-braced wing demonstrator and focus ...
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NASA, Boeing pause X-66 to chase breakthrough ultra-thin wing aircraft design
The X-66 program heavily modified a McDonnell Douglas MD-90 aircraft to demonstrate a truss-braced version of the thin wing.
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Running A Glider With The PX4 Flight Controller
There are a few open source autopilots available these days for quadcopters and fixed wing aircraft. Two of the most popular are ArduPilot and PX4, however neither is officially capable of working ...
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Alaska Air takes a stake in VR flight simulation firm Loft Dynamics
Loft Dynamics is described as a Swiss-based company specializing in virtual reality flight simulation technology ... marks its expansion into fixed-wing aircraft training. The VR simulators ...