Morphing Aircraft Move To Flight Testing

Credit: NEXTGEN AERONAUTICS
The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) believes that some day, a single aircraft will achieve the capabilities of three or four different vehicles by radically changing, or morphing, the shape of its wings during flight. Long-standing scientific work on these shape-shifting...

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