NASA Successfully Tests New Flexible Airplane Wings

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This modified Gulfstream III is the test bed aircraft for the ACTE flexible-flap research project via NASA

NASA has successfully completed the first test flights for a new airplane technology: a wing that can change shape mid-flight. The project team has already conducted 22 test flights in the last six months with the experimental Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE) wing surface, and so far the results have been promising.