There are many types of aircraft wings aside from the current ones you are familiar with.. Well, maybe not the Star Wars X-wing fighter...not yet anyway. Some of these concept-wing jets are so bizarre that you’ll wonder how they even got into the air… Check out the Grumman X-29 with its forward-swept wing, and canard control surfaces which some would call a bold innovation...if these can be called that at all. It was created during the height of the Cold War by the ‘men in black’ at the Defense