A newly developed wing architecture could greatly simplify the manufacturing process and reduce fuel consumption by improving the wing’s aerodynamics. It is based on a system of tiny, lightweight subunits that could be assembled by a team of small specialized robots, and could ultimately be used to build the entire airframe. Credit: Kenneth Cheung/NASA
High-tech wizardry by MIT and NASA engineers will allow some aircraft to return to their roots, with a new kind of bendable, “morphing” wing. Wright brothers accomplished their first powered flight more than a century ago, and controlled the motion of their Flyer 1 aircraft using wires and pulleys that bent and twisted the wood-and-canvas wings...
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