Boeing X-66, the Glossary
The Boeing X-66 is an experimental airliner under development by Boeing.[1]
Table of Contents
31 relations: Airbus A320neo family, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ames Research Center, Boeing, Boeing 737 MAX, Boeing Truss-Braced Wing, Boundary layer suction, Cantilever, CFM International RISE, Folding wing, Fuel economy in aircraft, Geared turbofan, Hybrid electric vehicle, Jet airliner, Langley Research Center, List of X-planes, Mach number, McDonnell Douglas MD-80, McDonnell Douglas MD-90, Narrow-body aircraft, NASA, Palmdale Regional Airport, Pratt & Whitney PW1000G, Rolls-Royce North America, Subsonic and transonic wind tunnel, Swept wing, Transonic, Truss, Turbofan, Variable pitch fan, Wind tunnel.
- 2020s United States experimental aircraft
Airbus A320neo family
The Airbus A320neo family is an incremental development of the A320 family of narrow-body airliners produced by Airbus.
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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is a professional society for the field of aerospace engineering.
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Ames Research Center
The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley.
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Boeing
The Boeing Company (or simply Boeing) is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide.
Boeing 737 MAX
The Boeing 737 MAX is the fourth generation of the Boeing 737, a narrow-body airliner manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
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Boeing Truss-Braced Wing
Boeing Truss-Braced Wing are airliner designs studied by Boeing with braced, high aspect ratio wings.
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Boundary layer suction
Boundary layer suction is a boundary layer control technique in which an air pump is used to extract the boundary layer at the wing or the inlet of an aircraft.
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Cantilever
A cantilever is a rigid structural element that extends horizontally and is unsupported at one end.
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CFM International RISE
The CFM International RISE ("Revolutionary Innovation for Sustainable Engines") is an open rotor engine currently under development by CFM International, a 50–50 joint venture between American GE Aerospace and French Safran Aircraft Engines.
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Folding wing
A folding wing is a wing configuration design feature of aircraft to save space and is typical of carrier-based aircraft that operate from the limited deck space of aircraft carriers.
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Fuel economy in aircraft
The fuel economy in aircraft is the measure of the transport energy efficiency of aircraft.
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Geared turbofan
The geared turbofan is a type of turbofan aircraft engine with a planetary gearbox between the low pressure compressor / turbine and the fan, enabling each to spin at its optimum speed.
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Hybrid electric vehicle
A hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) is a type of hybrid vehicle that combines a conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) system with an electric propulsion system (hybrid vehicle drivetrain).
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Jet airliner
A jet airliner or jetliner is an airliner powered by jet engines (passenger jet aircraft).
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Langley Research Center
The Langley Research Center (LaRC or NASA Langley), located in Hampton, Virginia near the Chesapeake Bay front of Langley Air Force Base, is the oldest of NASA's field centers.
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List of X-planes
The X-planes are a series of experimental United States aircraft and rockets, used to test and evaluate new technologies and aerodynamic concepts. Boeing X-66 and List of X-planes are NASA aircraft.
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Mach number
The Mach number (M or Ma), often only Mach, is a dimensionless quantity in fluid dynamics representing the ratio of flow velocity past a boundary to the local speed of sound.
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McDonnell Douglas MD-80
The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 is a series of five-abreast single-aisle airliners developed by McDonnell Douglas.
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McDonnell Douglas MD-90
The McDonnell Douglas (later Boeing) MD-90 is an American five-abreast single-aisle airliner developed by McDonnell Douglas from its successful model MD-80.
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Narrow-body aircraft
A narrow-body aircraft or single-aisle aircraft is an airliner arranged along a single aisle, permitting up to 6-abreast seating in a cabin less than in width.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
Palmdale Regional Airport
Palmdale Regional Airport is an airport in Palmdale, California, United States.
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Pratt & Whitney PW1000G
The Pratt & Whitney PW1000G family, also known as the GTF (geared turbofan), is a family of high-bypass geared turbofan produced by Pratt & Whitney.
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Rolls-Royce North America
Rolls-Royce North America, Inc. is a subsidiary of multinational corporation Rolls-Royce plc.
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Subsonic and transonic wind tunnel
Subsonic wind tunnels are used for operations at low Mach numbers, with speeds in the test section up to 480 km/h (~ 134 m/s, M.
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Swept wing
A swept wing is a wing angled either backward or occasionally forward from its root rather than perpendicular to the fuselage.
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Transonic
Transonic (or transsonic) flow is air flowing around an object at a speed that generates regions of both subsonic and supersonic airflow around that object.
Truss
A truss is an assembly of members such as beams, connected by nodes, that creates a rigid structure.
Turbofan
A turbofan or fanjet is a type of airbreathing jet engine that is widely used in aircraft propulsion.
Variable pitch fan
A variable pitch fan is similar in concept to that of a variable-pitch propeller and involves progressively reducing the pitch (or blade angle) of the fan on a turbofan as the engine is throttled.
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Wind tunnel
Wind tunnels are machines in which objects are held stationary inside a tube, and air is blown around it to study the interaction between the object and the moving air.
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See also
2020s United States experimental aircraft
- Aurora X-65 CRANE
- Boeing X-66
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-66
Also known as Boeing X-66A, X-66A.