This is really interesting actually. They’re using technology to replicate the way a bird soars. If you watch it birds exercise the ultimate variable control surface adjusting their wing tips and twisting the leading edge to compensate for updrafts, wind shifts and turbulence. I had always wondered when the engineers would finally come to try and replicate that technologically.
Orville and Wilbur Wright used wing warping for the Flyer.
We were working on this concept over 30 years ago so it’s not exactly new.
Works well in combination with vectored thrust.
The Wright Brothers Flyer used that ‘technology’, they called it ‘Wing Warping’. But Flaps and ailerons became the norm................
The Wright Brothers Flyer used that ‘technology’, they called it ‘Wing Warping’. But Flaps and ailerons became the norm................
I watched Alabama buzzards (Turkey and Black Vultures) using just a few feathers to turn around and go up and down in the air. Amazing creatures!