The X-29 experimental aircraft, developed during the 1980s, stands as one of the boldest attempts in aviation history to explore the limits of the forward-swept wing design. Built through a ...

Key Points and Summary - NASA and Grumman’s X-29 was a 1980s–90s technology demonstrator that flipped convention with forward-swept wings and canards to probe extreme maneuvering and ...

The result was the X-29, which first took flight in 1984 and acted as a research testbed until 1992. Two of the prototypes were built and from the outset they had a strange yet familiar profile. The ...