{"id":89269,"date":"2019-04-05T17:03:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T00:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/new-plane-wing-moves-like-a-birds-and-could-radically-change-aircraft-design"},"modified":"2019-04-05T17:03:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T00:03:19","slug":"new-plane-wing-moves-like-a-birds-and-could-radically-change-aircraft-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/new-plane-wing-moves-like-a-birds-and-could-radically-change-aircraft-design","title":{"rendered":"New plane wing moves like a bird\u2019s and could radically change aircraft design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-plane-wing-moves-like-a-birds-and-could-radically-change-aircraft-design2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plane wings are traditionally strong, thick and sturdy but a team of researchers led by NASA has created a flexible wing that morphs as it flies.<\/p>\n<p>Measuring 14 feet or four meters wide, the new wing is constructed from thousands of units that fit together and function in a similar way to a bird\u2019s wing, says one of the report\u2019s authors, NASA research engineer, Nick Cramer.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/style\/article\/nasa-mit-airplane-wing\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/style\/article\/nasa-mit-airplane-wing\/index.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plane wings are traditionally strong, thick and sturdy but a team of researchers led by NASA has created a flexible wing that morphs as it flies. Measuring 14 feet or four meters wide, the new wing is constructed from thousands of units that fit together and function in a similar way to a bird\u2019s wing, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}