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Airbus has completed the second of three wing demonstrators in Broughton and delivered it to a new test facility in nearby Filton. The Wing Technology Demonstrator Center (WTDC) was officially opened on Tuesday by the UK Minister of State at…
The already impressive line-up of experimental X-planes gets an addition, as US Air Force has designated the Transonic Truss-Brace Wing demonstrator from Boeing and NASA as the X-66A. The aircraft should be available for flight testing in 2028. Boeing’s truss-braced wing…
Despite having its own extensive maintenance facilities in Dubai, Emirates recently dispatched one of its Airbus A380s to Airbus in Toulouse for “maintenance”, as it told AirInsight. But as Aviation Week reports, this maintenance has actually to do with checks and…
Covid caused some delays, but the development of Airbus Wing of Tomorrow has got to the next stage with the final assembly of the first prototype. It is the first of three composite demonstrator wings that will be thoroughly tested and…
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