Airplane designers have long admired how birds reshape their wings for soaring, diving, and maneuvering. Now, a prototype aircraft wing has demonstrated in its first flight tests that its morphing might save fuel.
HANGING OUT. A silver-colored wing prototype, mounted vertically beneath a jet, has a morphing trailing edge. Its developers completed flight tests of the novel wing last week.
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