MIT and NASA engineers demonstrate a new kind of airplane wing
https://phys.org/news/2019-04-mit-na...lane-wing.html
A structural material composed of a cubic array lattice of 3D printed parts.
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While it would be possible to include motors and cables to produce the forces needed to deform the wings, the team has taken this a step further and designed a system that automatically responds to changes in its aerodynamic loading conditions by shifting its shape—a sort of self-adjusting, passive wing-reconfiguration process.
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