NASA boosts efficiency with custom X-66 flooring

NASA boosts efficiency with custom X-66 flooring

NASA designed temporary floorboards for the MD-90 aircraft to use while it is transformed into the X-66 experimental demonstrator aircraft. These floorboards will protect the original flooring and streamline the modification process. Supporting the agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, a small team in the Experimental Fabrication Shop at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards, Calif., built temporary floorboards to save t…

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Eric Garza, an engineering technician in the Experimental Fabrication Shop at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, cuts plywood to size for the temporary floorboards of the X-66 experimental demonstrator aircraft on August 26, 2024. NASA/Steve Freeman Read this story in Spanish here. NASA designed temporary floorboards for the MD-90 aircraft…