Grumman X-29 chosen to represent the NEW Flight Test Museum!

The Grumman X-29 has been chosen to represent the New Flight Test Museum for it’s unique design and representation of X-planes. This experimental aircraft tested a forward-swept wing, canard control surfaces, and other novel aircraft technologies. Funded by NASA, the United States Air Force, and DARPA the X-29 was developed by Grumman, and the two built were flown by NASA and the United States Air Force.
The aerodynamic instability of the X-29’s airframe required the use of computerized fly-by-wire control. Composite materials were used to control the aeroelastic divergent
twisting experienced by forward-swept wings, and to reduce weight. The aircraft first flew in 1984, and two X-29s were flight tested through 1991.
The first X-29, 82-003, is now on display in the Research and Development Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
The other craft is on display at the Armstrong Flight Research in our collection at the Flight Test Museum!
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