Did you guys even read the article?
It is new technology from new materials that employ PASSIVE adjustment to their shape which increases efficiency.
The physics behind it is sound, and interesting. Why are you bashing it?
Engineers change things to keep themselves employed. It is not better just different.
I’m not bashing anything or anybody.
The principle was first put forward by the Wright Brothers, as ‘wing warping’. Glenn Curtis invented ailerons and flaps to get around the Wright Bros patent on wing warping......
I’m not bashing, I was pointing out how ignorant of aerodynamics the author of the piece is to not even give a nod to the Wright brothers who at the dawn of the age of flight understood these very principles.
That is against Free Republic rules.
It is new technology from new materials that employ PASSIVE adjustment to their shape which increases efficiency.
I *HATE* pacifists.
The physics behind it is sound, and interesting. Why are you bashing it?
Because I hate everything that is new.