Boeing now has its eye on bigger, tastier goals. It believes by switching to a truss-braced wing design, it could net double-digit efficiency gains. It’s working together with NASA to see if ...

Read about the latest tests conducted with the X-66 aircraft, NASA’s experimental airliner being developed with Boeing.

Researchers test a 10-foot Mock Truss-Braced Wing at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. A view from above shows the test structure, the wing, and the strut.

Turning to the fuselage, 41% of airline respondents and 43% of lessors expressed a desire for a traditional narrowbody design, while 28% of airlines favor a small widebody, an architecture most ...

Twelve percent of airline respondents see a blended wing body like JetZero's (right) as the most promising option for a new airliner, while just 2% favor the truss-braced wing concept Boeing is ...

The so-called Transonic Truss-Braced Wing aircraft boasts a 170-foot (52 meter) wingspan that sits atop the fuselage and is braced from underneath by a truss in a design reminiscent of biplanes ...