X-66A has new colo(u)rs

[Verbal]

I can't wait to see the new livery!

NASA, Boeing, Provide a Peek at What the X-66A Will Look Like

NASA and Boeing have unveiled a new livery for the X-66A aircraft that will be produced through the agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator.

The X-66A is the first X-plane specifically focused on helping the United States achieve the goal of net-zero aviation greenhouse gas emissions, which was articulated in the White House’s U.S. Aviation Climate Action Plan.

The Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project seeks to inform a potential new generation of more sustainable single-aisle aircraft – the workhorse of passenger airlines around the world. Boeing will work with NASA to build, test, and fly the X-66A, a full-scale demonstrator aircraft. The X-66A with extra-long, thin wings stabilized by diagonal struts, known as a Transonic Truss-Braced Wing concept.

NASA and Boeing unveiled the livery at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh on Tuesday, July 25.

https://www.nasa.gov/aeroresearch/nasa- ... -look-like

[Gabriel]

This new livery doesn't suit this old DC-9.

[Dummy Pilot]

I'd recognize that tail anywhere.....

....I don't recognize the aft right emergency exit which never existed

[Verbal]

....I don't recognize the aft right emergency exit which never existed

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

[elaw]

All the challenges and questions relating to this design, and they're worrying about the paint?

Oh yeah, it's 2023, isn't it.

[3WE]

Let me get this straight: Are we building biplanes or are we building strutted Cessna 272s?

Fortunately, the squid will eliminate the marketing department before this DC-9 looking thing takes flight. Yeah, Us, too, but I’m not sure I care

[Gabriel]

Let me get this straight: Are we building biplanes or are we building strutted Cessna 272s?

Yes

[Gabriel]

I'd recognize that tail anywhere.....

....I don't recognize the aft right emergency exit which never existed

You still exist!!!

[3WE]

Let me get this straight: Are we building biplanes or are we building strutted Cessna 272s?

Yes

I love Biplanes and 172s, but get the feeling we are going backwards.

Could they just revive the 757?

[Not_Karl]

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

Are we talking about MCAS?

I'd recognize that tail anywhere.....

....I don't recognize the aft right emergency exit which never existed

Welcome back, Karl!!

[monchavo]

I'd recognize that tail anywhere.....

....I don't recognize the aft right emergency exit which never existed

THERE HAS BEEN A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE


welcome back

[Not_Karl]

I can't wait to see the new livery!

I can't wait to see the IFE!

[flyboy2548m]

I'd recognize that tail anywhere.....

....I don't recognize the aft right emergency exit which never existed

Holy Hydraulics! Nav5!

[J]

Little struts that are discolored, if not melted, by jet blast are one thing, but look at what the competition is doing:


Airbus’s Future Planes Will Have See-Through Ceilings So You Can .... (Collect additional solar radiation) While You Fly

Actually the headline says, "Gaze at the stars," Maybe it is time to dust off the Sonic Cruiser?

https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/ ... 234849459/

[elaw]

Probably a result of some study showing pax take up less space when their heads are tilted upwards, so they can cram more people in.

[Not_Karl]

Probably a result of some study showing pax take up less space when their heads are tilted upwards, so they can cram more people in.

Useless. Probably hosties and/or pax will just shut the ceiling shades after take-off as they do with windows...

[J]

Boeing Relies on MD Airframe for Advanced Experimental Design
or
Boeing Punishes Former Competitor With New Design

Boeing To Begin Modifying An MD-90 To Fly With Experimental Truss-Braced Wing

The modifications will form part of testing for Boeing's X-66A program, which it hopes will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 30%.

Excerpt: Current Registration: N931TB History; https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/ ... ng/el05ve
A McDonnell Douglas MD-90 has touched down in Palmdale, CA, after being ferried from Victorville, CA, by Boeing. The manufacturer plans to modify the aircraft to test the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) configuration.

The aircraft ferried to Palmdale by Boeing this week was a McDonnell Douglas MD-90, registered as N931TB. Delivered new to China Northern Airlines in 1999, the aircraft then went on to operate for China Southern Airlines and Delta Air Lines.

https://simpleflying.com/boeing-md-90-t ... onversion/

[3WE]

[J’s post]

I guess, based on the example of their advanced medium-range, narrow-body utility airliner, that the super duper “next-gen” hyper liner would be similarly not_clean-sheet platform.

Interesting.

[Not_Karl]

[J’s post]

I guess, based on the example of their advanced medium-range, narrow-body utility airliner, that the super duper “next-gen” hyper liner would be similarly not_clean-sheet platform.

Interesting.

Always nice to see Boeingie expanding its offer of relics from the sixties that should have been retired by now.

[elaw]

As far as I'm concerned, if B-52's can keep flying, so can the BMD-90717. If you ask me (acknowledging that nobody did), it's the perfect passenger aeroplanie: it doesn't have MCAS, it has "modern" engines, is tall enough to stand up in yet has only one row of middle seats. Okay yes it's so long it could be a blind airplane's walking stick, but they could probably figure out a way to shorten it...

[3WE]

…they could probably figure out a way to shorten it...

The BMD-90717-30 and ‘-15 (Sorry for stating the obvious, along with A, B, C, D, Etc variants.

[Not_Karl]

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/nasa-x66 ... index.html
More "new" grossly obsolete aircraps with greenwash technologies and exciting liveries! A Socialist (Commie) Canadian one and a morally-bankrupt Eurotrash one. Can't wait for someone to show a solar-powered DC-3 or a wind-powered C-46!

(...) A souped-up Saab 340B, with white and blue livery, with be used for ground and test flights on a megawatt-class hybrid electric powertrain being developed by GE Aerospace. (A powertrain, for the uninitiated, is the system that brings together all the components to drive a vehicle forward). NASA says the flights will take place by the middle of this decade.

A modified DeHavilland “Dash 7” aircraft, with red and white livery, is home to magniX’s hybrid powertrain, and it’s partnering with AeroTEC and Air Tindi on test flights.

It’s hoped the project eventually will benefit short-haul turboprop aircraft – the type that carry between 30 and 70 passengers – as well as regional, single-aisle commercial airliners carrying up to 180 passengers.

NASA says it plans to conduct at least two flight demonstrations within the next five years so the new technologies can be introduced commercially in the United States between 2030 and 2035.