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Thin Wings, Big Impacts: NASA-Boeing’s X-66 Wing Research Could Shake Widebody Valuations

Author: Aircraft Value News
October 6, 2025

In mid-2025 the aviation world marked a milestone in aerodynamics and avionics interaction. While most headlines focus on new engines, emissions, or avionics suites, NASA and Boeing made public plans to investigate long, thin-wing designs through the X-66 flight demonstrator project.

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