Boneyard Airplane Sees New Life as a NASA X-66 Simulator

NASAs X-66 aircraft, the centerpiece of its Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, is taking the term sustainable to heart by reusing an old MD-90 cockpit as a base for its new X-66 simulator. When airplanes are retired, they often wind up in boneyards storage fields where they spend years being picked over for parts by 8230;. https://www.nasa.gov/image...
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