You mean the Wright Brothers were on to something?
wing warping demonstrated by park ranger at Wright Brothers National Memorial
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Actually these fake feather things are the next step past the Wright Brothers.
I wonder what took us so long?
RC Model Version.
Wing Warp Electric RC Plane
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A Warped Experiment
I think that the some of the larger flapping wing RC models use the wing warping technique to fly and control the flight.
This extended vortex version as seen in the first video in this thread could be something new, I'm not sure though. Are they claiming it as something new?
NASA website is down because of the government shutdown. Maybe they will have something on this topic once that nonsense is over.