DefenceTalkNASA researchers, working in concert with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and FlexSys Inc., of Ann Arbor, Michigan, successfully completed initial flight tests of a new morphing wing technology that has the potential to save millions of dollars annually in fuel costs, reduce airframe weight and decrease aircraft noise during takeoffs and landings. The […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nasa-tests-shape-changing-wing-for-next-generation-aviation-64108/

DefenceTalkA feature of aircraft design unchanged for nearly a century may have been twisted into a new shape as a result of a revolutionary new structure being tested in the Mojave Desert. A specially modified Gulfstream III jet successfully took to the skies over NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Nov. 6 using shape changing wings […]https://www.defencetalk.com/usaf-tests-will-soon-fly-flapless-wing-design-61016/