NASA: this will be the zero-emissions X-66 plane being prepared together with Boeing

The POT shared a visual representation of the X-66, a zero emissions plane developed in collaboration with Boeing, as part of efforts to achieve carbon neutrality in the American aviation by the year 2050. The aircraft design features extremely long and thin wings, stabilized by diagonal struts, known as ‘Transonic Truss-Braced Wing’, along with improvements to the propulsion system, the materials used and the architecture of the systems.

This new configuration, as shared by POTcould reduce fuel consumption and emissions by up to 30% compared to planes of its kind operating today.

The work of Boeing and the POT It is part of the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, which enters the first phases of production of the X-66 with the aim of testing it and making it fly on a full scale.

This project aims to create “a new generation of more sustainable single-aisle aircraft” which, as pointed out by POTis “the workhorse of passenger airlines around the world”.

In this sense, the agency considers that the X-66 is a key piece of the National Sustainable Flight Association of the POTthrough which the agency aims to “protect the environment, grow the American economy and deliver new innovations to the traveling public”.

Boeing transported the plane MD-90 -which will become the X-66 to its Palmdale (California) facility last year, where it dismantled its engines as modifications began.

The POT He pointed out that the creation of this plane will be a key achievement to guarantee the possibility of slowing the growth of CO₂ emissions in the future and thus achieving the goal of net zero emissions in 2050, which would mean keeping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius.