The MD-90 had a seating capacity for 153 passengers in a multi-class configuration and had a range of up to 2,455 nautical miles. Another related aircraft was the MD-95, which was later renamed ...

The Boeing 717 is the last US-made rear-engined commercial jet, although this could change if the JetZero Z4 goes into ...

NASA Collaborates With Boeing. Boeing's key modifications to the MD-90 will involve the replacement of its wings with a new set that boasts a sleeker, elongated design supported by diagonal struts.

Last week, Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences started work on phase three of a DARPA project to make a full-scale X-plane, the X-65, which could change aircraft design as we know it. Well ...

Boeing has started dismantling and scanning an old MD-90 as part of a multi-year NASA-supported project to transform the former passenger jet into the X-66A truss-braced-wing demonstrator.

This week however we've learned the actual plane to put the idea through its paces will be based on the MD-90. This family of single-aisle aircraft was introduced in 1995 and is powered by a pair ...

The Boeing-NASA X-66A will be developed from an MD-90-30 variant originally delivered to China Northern in 1999. Credit: Boeing/NASA A lot is riding on the success of the X-66A—NASA’s ...

Boeing began production work in August, when it relocated a MD-90 to its Palmdale, California, facility. According to NASA, the company has removed the aircraft’s engines and begun modifications.

Boeing’s MD-90 aircraft flew from Victorville to Palmdale, on Aug. 15. Future modifications to the aircraft will include changes to the fuselage and most notably the use of a transonic truss ...

At its facility in Palmdale, California, Boeing will convert an MD-90 aircraft — a single-aisle plane that's no longer in service — into the X-66. The novel design could offer significant ...

It will be built from a modified MD-90 aircraft, known for its extensive use by Delta Air Lines, at a Boeing facility in Palmdale, Calif. The Transonic Truss-Braced Wing was brought up during ...