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🇺🇸NASA & BOEING'S X-66 — THE PLANE THAT COULD REVOLUTIONIZE AIR TRAVEL NASA and Boeing just finished wind tunnel tests on the X-66, a next-gen aircraft designed to cut drag, improve fuel efficiency, and make air travel way more eco-friendly. The X-66 is part of NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator program, aiming to make future single-aisle airliners (like the ones you fly on now) burn less fuel, produce fewer emissions, and be more aerodynamically efficient. Instead of testing a full plane, engineers used a semi-span model (aka half a plane) inside NASA’s 11-Foot Transonic Unitary Plan Facility at Ames Research Center. Why just half? Because aerodynamics is predictable—forces acting on one side of a symmetrical wing behave the same on the other, so testing both is a waste of time and money. They drilled pressure ports into the wing and placed hundreds of sensors to measure lift, drag, stability, and transonic airflow behavior (how air behaves at nearly supersonic speeds). This data will help refine the final wing design before they start building a real X-66. Basically, this plane could change the future of commercial aviation—and it all starts with some serious wind tunnel science. Source: NASA