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 Force and DARPA, the X-29 was developed by Grumman, and the two built were flown by NASA and the United States Air Force. [1]

2015年11月5日 · 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 joint NASA-Air Force-Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program from December 1984 to 1988 investigating handling qualities, performance, and systems integration on ...

2019年7月13日 · The X-29, an experimental plane flown by NASA in the 1980s, sports one of the most unusual designs in the history of aviation.

Two X-29 aircraft, featuring one of the more unusual designs in aviation history, were flown at NASA Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (now Arm-strong Flight Research Center) at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The demonstrators investigated advanced concepts and technologies during a multi-phased program conducted from 1984 to 1992.

2023年11月19日 · 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 design of many of the jets...

2016年2月10日 · On Dec. 13, 1985, the X-29 became the first forward-swept-wing airplane in the world to exceed Mach 1 in level flight. Grumman manufactured two airframes. They flew a total of 437 flights between 1984-1992.

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 time. Technology breakthroughs, among them a digital fly-by-wire flight-control system and carbon-fiber wing technology, made possible a lightweight ...

1 天前 · The Grumman X-29 was an experimental aircraft that intensely tested a combination of the use of canards, forward swept wings, fly by wire, composite materials and other cutting edge aircraft ...

Built upon the body of a modified F-5E Tiger II with a single F404-GE-400 engine, forward-mounted canard wings, and redesigned air intakes, the X-29 logged a total of 422 flights between models 1 and 2 and managed to achieve a maximum angle of attack of 67 degrees. It has the ability to reach a maximum speed of Mach 1.6.

2018年10月26日 · The Grumman X-29 aircraft was a technology demonstrator appearing in the latter years of the Cold War (1947-1991). The design was of a most unique shape - made notable by its forward-swept wings - and was the first aircraft with such an arrangement to fly supersonically (the World War 2-era Junkers Ju 287 was the first jet to utilize forward ...