NASA To Test Active Flow Control On Rudder

An airliner's vertical tail is hardly used in normal flight conditions, its size instead determined by one rare, worst-case scenario: the loss of an engine on takeoff. If the power of the rudder could be increased on demand, then a smaller tail could be fitted across an entire family of aircraft...

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