Boeing & Aerospace

Boeing & Aerospace

Boeing & Aerospace

Read news about The Boeing Co. and other commercial and military aerospace companies such as Airbus, Lockheed-Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon; airplane facilities in Everett, Renton, Seattle and Charleston, S.C.; Alaska Airlines and other carriers; NASA and space firms SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic; and local technology firms such as Aerojet Rocketdyne.

Boeing, NASA shelve plans to test futuristic passenger jet

An illustration of Boeing’s Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (X-66A) X-66A is the new Air Force designation for this eXperimental plane NASA also calls it the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator or SFD

Boeing and NASA will pause work on the X-66 Sustainable Flight Demonstrator, an experimental plane design featuring long, thin wings meant to make the plane more fuel efficient.

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Continental plans to order 7E7s

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46-acre Boeing site in Renton sold

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Jumbo jet of a firefighting idea

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