{"id":292374,"date":"2024-12-02T12:10:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T11:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=344891"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:40:32","slug":"this-nasa-plane-did-not-succeed-for-one-reason-it-had-backward-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/this-nasa-plane-did-not-succeed-for-one-reason-it-had-backward-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"This NASA plane did not succeed for one reason: it had backward wings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Grumman X-29 looks like a plane that a child assembled from a model kit without reading the instructions, hence the wings of the plane were, for the first time, placed in the opposite direction. Dear reader, innovation is not always necessary.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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This model can only be seen at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, or the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, where there are prototypes of one of the strangest aircraft that have ever come off the drawing board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those who don’t know it, this plane <\/strong>(the Grumman X-29 of the United States Air Force) was born during the 1980s and is a fighter whose main attraction is that it has reverse wings<\/strong>. Let’s tell its story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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