Future Aircraft Wings will be Morphing, Movable 3D Surfaces

Sometime between 2025 and 2030, another more profound level of shape-changing may be used. Famously, Wilbur Wright was idly twisting a cardboard inner-tube box in his bicycle shop when he noticed how the deformation of the surface mimicked the profile of a pigeon's wing when it turned in the air. (www.bbc.com) Ещё...