Modular, Adjustable: A Test Plane for Any Occasion [feedly]

Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 14, 2016
Looking to make a plane that was able to take off and land at airports with shorter runways, in the mid-2000s NASA began experimenting with the circulation control wing concept. Using increased amounts of high-pressure air over the leading and trailing edges of the wings, supplied either by the jet engines or separate compressors, aircraft using this technology have greater lift. That enab
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