MIT and NASA engineers demonstrate a new kind of shape-changing airplane wing

Monday, April 1, 2019 - 10:00 in Physics & Chemistry

Assembled from tiny identical pieces, the wing could enable lighter, more energy-efficient aircraft designs. The new approach to wing construction could afford greater flexibility in the design and manufacturing of future aircraft. The new wing design was tested in a NASA wind tunnel and is described today in a paper in the journal Smart Materials and […]

Read the whole article on Science Blog

More from Science Blog

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net