{"id":206810,"date":"2025-04-28T06:38:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T20:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-nasa-sustainable-flight-demonstrator-aircraft-project\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T06:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T20:38:30","slug":"boeing-nasa-suspend-x-66a-sustainable-flight-demonstrator-aircraft-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=206810","title":{"rendered":"Boeing &amp; NASA Suspend X-66A Sustainable Flight Demonstrator Aircraft Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span> and         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"136022\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/nasa\/\"  >NASA<\/a><\/span> are mutually agreeing to pause development of the X-66A, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/boeing-nasa-pause-experimental-sustainable-plane-project\/?utm_source=marketingcloud&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=TSA_042525180021+Experimental+plane+project+put+on+hold_4_25_2025&#038;utm_term=Registered%20User\" >according to an April 25 Seattle Times report<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/aerospace\/emerging-technologies\/boeing-puts-x-66-ice-will-continue-thin-wing-studies#:~:text=Boeing%20is%20indefinitely%20pausing%20development%20of%20the%20X-66,thin-wing%20technology%20at%20the%20center%20of%20the%20project.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >an April 24 Aviation Week report<\/a> plus April 24 <a href=\"https:\/\/theaircurrent.com\/feed\/dispatches\/boeing-shelves-plans-nasa-x-66-flight-demonstrator-ttbw\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Air Current reporting<\/a>. Although most of the project&#8217;s Boeing engineers are being reassigned to help with 777X and 737 MAX production issues, some will remain to work on perfecting the thin wing design at the core of the X-66A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The X-66A may be suspended, but critical wing research continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,926,398,13240,1880,6284,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aviation-sustainability","category-boeing","category-commercial-aviation","category-experimental-planes","category-flight-testing","category-nasa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206811,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206810\/revisions\/206811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}