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The airplane changing shape on the fly

Washington, USA - The prototype is being studied at MIT

A research made by MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and financed by DARPA, Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, with the contribution of Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Karlsruhe University in Germany, is tweaking an aircraft prototype endowed with wings able to change their shape. The "Morphing" material is a compound of lithium, cobalt and black lead, capable to change its...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 138585
Rome, Italy, 04/03/2006 13:04
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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