Southwest and American Airlines will give feedback on a project in collaboration with Boeing and NASA.
The Transonic Truss-Braced Wing was brought up during Boeing’s latest earnings call.“We’re heavily invested in this,” Calhoun said. “We like what it could potentially deliver to this market, a level of performance that the industry is used to seeing with brand new programs.”It’s NASA’s first X-plane, an experimental plane, focused on achieving a goal of net-zero aviation greenhouse gas emissions.
Southwest, American, Alaska Airlines, Delta and United Airlines will all provide feedback on design, simulation and lab testing and flight testing. Flight testing is scheduled for 2028 and 2029 out of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center at the Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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