LAS VEGAS, Jan. 19, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mundus Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets:MNDP) has received a patent for the Telescoping Wing Locking System (Patent No.: US 7,832,690 B1) from the United States ...
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, U.S.) recently completed the successful flight demonstration of a game-changing camber morphing wing technology that ...
Engineers are closing in on a long imagined goal in aviation, wings that can subtly change shape in midair instead of relying on rigid flaps and heavy hydraulics. The key is a family of “metals with ...
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The first in-flight demonstration of a shape-changing, or morphing, wing has been accomplished by small US company NextGen Aeronautics. The test was in part of a US research programme to demonstrate ...
The Clean Aviation HERWINGT project is developing a novel, ultra-high performance wing for a hybrid-electric regional aircraft, including thermoplastic composites (TPC) and morphing composite wing ...
Researchers from the University of Michigan have developed 3D morphing wings they believe could help small aircraft safely navigate windy urban streets. The wing design could also help aircraft land ...
MIT and NASA researchers have developed a morphing airplane wing that goes back to the future: The entire wing bends and twists, much as the Wright brothers' Flyer 1 did more than a century ago.