Author Topic: The shape of wings to come? (Read 4229 times)

Happy Days · « **on:** April 30, 2015, 08:25:50 AM »

I've just read this......Wonder how it could work with our models?

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32517996

Little Keith

billscottni · « **Reply #1 on:** April 30, 2015, 08:53:22 AM »

A similar thing was tried about 10 years ago on a large scale Fox Keith. The lower wing skin was flexible and using a bar on a cam the wingsection near the root could be changed from under cambered to semi symmetrical.

Think the model was built by Wild Skies

Happy Days · « **Reply #2 on:** April 30, 2015, 09:27:14 AM »

Ah, so it has been tried in model form. Interesting. It’s a kind of wing warping isn’t it.

They say there is nothing new under the sun. Ha! :lol:

Fred · « **Reply #3 on:** May 01, 2015, 08:12:25 AM »

Was tried wwwaaayyy before that Bill, in the 30s (maybe even before!)

And for Planes, I believe in the 20s

I think at the time, everything has been tried. That's without talking about the wing warping ones.

In relatively more recent years, you have something like the HKS-1 glider. No ailerons, flexible wing

That one is from the 50s if I remember.
And a few more that went from expendable wings, to variable in flight dihedral etc that the Germans, and others, tried in the 30s

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Author Topic: The shape of wings to come? (Read 4229 times)