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To: InterceptPoint
Them wings start flapping to save on fuel. Sort of like a Hybrid Design.
16 posted on 07/09/2007 11:00:27 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: BallyBill

Speaking of wing flapping, some engineers at Boeing believe you could bend the wings far enough that you could touch the wingtips together above the fuselage without breaking the wings.

I wouldn’t want to see that on any plane I was in, though. :)


22 posted on 07/09/2007 11:47:04 AM PDT by eraser2005
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