November 15, 2017
Lockheed Martin is developing the X-56A is a perspective plane with thin flexible wings
shaoran2012According to experts NASA, in the near future to replace the current wide winged liners will come a new generation aircraft with long, thin and flexible wings. This will significantly reduce aerodynamic drag and fuel consumption. However, these wings there is a serious problem – the so-called flutter, the process of self-excited vibrations, bending and torsional wing of the plane or the rotor, which ultimately leads to their destruction. Scunk Works, a division of Lockheed Martin responsible for the secret development, in conjunction with NASA, is designing a prototype of […]