The Grumman X-29 is an American experimental aircraft that tested a forward-swept wing, canard control surfaces, and other novel aircraft technologies. Funded by NASA, the United States Air …

Nov 5, 2015 · The No. 1 X-29 advanced technology demonstrator aircraft banks over desert terrain near NASA’s Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA. It was flown in a …

Jul 13, 2019 · The X-29, an experimental plane flown by NASA in the 1980s, sports one of the most unusual designs in the history of aviation.

Feb 10, 2016 · On Dec. 13, 1985, the X-29 became the first forward-swept-wing airplane in the world to exceed Mach 1 in level flight, and flight results showed that a highly unstable aircraft …

Nov 19, 2023 · Without flying a single combat mission, the X-29 has become a part of military aviation history for its bold development of new technologies, some of which informed the …

Feb 14, 2014 · This look-down view of the X-29 research aircraft in flight over California’s Mojave Desert during the 1980s and 1990s shows its striking and unique forward swept wing and …

The December 14, 1984, test flight of the X-29—the most aerodynamically unstable aircraft ever built—demonstrated forward-swept wing technology for supersonic fighter aircraft for the first …

Created at the height of the Cold War by a conglomerate of giants — NASA, the US Air Force, the “men in black” at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and aerospace …

Feb 3, 2000 · The X-29, featuring one of the most unusual aircraft designs in aviation history, was flown by the Dryden as a technology demonstrator to investigate a host of advanced concepts …

Mar 29, 2021 · Those planes almost seem passé when compared to the Grumman X-29, an aircraft that explored some truly cutting-edge design features. Most notable was that while …