NASA’s X-66 aircraft, the centerpiece of its Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, is taking the term “sustainable” to heart by reusing an old MD-90 cockpit as a base for its new X-66 simulator. When airplanes are retired, they often wind up in “boneyards” — storage fields where they spend years being picked over for parts by […]
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Aeronautics, Armstrong Flight Research Center, Flight Innovation, Green Aviation Tech, NASA Aircraft, Sustainable Flight Demonstrator
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July 23, 2024
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