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 ...

Grumman's answer for the X-29's antisocial degree of aerodynamic instability was to install a state-of-the-art fly-by-wire system that corrected the craft's flight 40 times per second. Corrections ...

The Grumman (now Northrup Grumman, most famous for being the manufacturer of the F-14 Tomcat) X-29 is one of the more obscure experimental aircraft in aviation history that failed to... Here’s What ...

Let's take a look at one of the most unusual - and unstable designs in aviation history: the X-29! The Grumman X-29 was an experimental aircraft that intensely tested a combination of the use of ...