NASA pleased with failure test of composite wing structure
NASA and Boeing engineers are pleased with a test to destruction of the first full-scale, stitched carbon-fiber wing structure. The 42-foot structure, designed to be representative of a 220-passenger, blended wing-body transport, failed at 97% of design ultimate load (145% of design limit load) with...
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