Truss-Braced Wing Shows Promise In Boeing And NASA Tests
Credit: NASA
After wind-tunnel tests showed that the flutter weight penalty of a long-span, low-drag truss-braced wing (TBW) is small enough to make the configuration feasible for future energy-saving airliners, NASA and Boeing are planning additional tests to assess the design’s aerodynamic performance...
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