NASA Folds Wing in Flight
NASA has tested wing folding in flight, a technique that could reduce tail size and therefore drag in subsonic aircraft. In supersonic flight, wing folding could be used to increase compression lift—a technique used on the North American XB-70 bomber to reduce drag in high-speed flight. The flights...
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