[Lee Stewart]

Boeing and NASA Are Working on Airplane Wings That Could Make Flights Faster

The wing is not too drastically different from what we see normally on the sides of planes. But underneath the wing is a “truss” (basically a support) that holds the wing up from the bottom. The truss would allow an aircraft to fly at speeds up to 0.8 Mach (about 615 miles per hour).

Compared to aircraft from the early 2000s, this type of plane would reduce fuel burn by up to 60 percent.