Re:Boeing delays 737 MAX software fix delivery
by hleszek on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:26PM
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It might be possible in the future to have commercial aircrafts with an airframe changing depending of the flight regime. See https://m.phys.org/news/2019-04-mit-nasa-kind-airplane-wing....
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Re:Boeing delays 737 MAX software fix delivery
by sandworm101 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:42PM
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Well, they do. That's what flaps are. They change the shape of the wing to better optimize for slow flight. Swing-wings work but are hideously heavy/expensive. We will never see an airframe able to morph into constantly ideal shapes like a birds do.