The 200lb Prototype Technology-Evaluation Research Aircraft (PTERA) landing during the first test series. The second set of tests will begin sometime this fall. With the Spanwise Adaptive Wing, ...

Foldable wings have played an obscure part in aviation since its earliest days when the Wright brothers used pulleys and levers to twist the trailing edges of wings. However, as planes got more ...

NASA's rendering of an aircraft with the Spanwise Adaptive Wing. NASA Articulating airfoils, or folding wings, are nothing new to aviation. They’ve been used for decades as an efficiency tool to help ...

Drive 100 miles or so to the northeast of Los Angeles, into the California desert, and you'll find yourself amidst a vast expanse of dried up lake beds. It's not the nicest place, but for the ...

NASA has been lately been seen testing an unmanned aerial prototype vehicle at the Rogers Dry Lake situated in the Edwards Air Force Base. While the photos of the aircraft may look like a normal drone ...

NASA recently launched a new program with Boeing and aeronautics company Area-I to test wings equipped with actuators that would allow them to fold during flight. The folding wings project, called ...

What if urban air taxis could, like birds, vary the configuration of their wings in flight? The answer to such questions could soon become reality through morphing wing technology assisted by ...

NASA is currently testing some new technology that could benefit the aerodynamics of both subsonic and supersonic aircraft. The effort has been dubbed the Spanwise Adaptive Wing project (SAW).

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