{"id":91439,"date":"2019-05-30T08:42:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T15:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/nasa-and-mit-debut-shape-shifting-airplane-wing"},"modified":"2019-05-30T08:42:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T15:42:53","slug":"nasa-and-mit-debut-shape-shifting-airplane-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/nasa-and-mit-debut-shape-shifting-airplane-wing","title":{"rendered":"NASA and MIT Debut Shape-Shifting Airplane Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-and-mit-debut-shape-shifting-airplane-wing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team from NASA and MIT has created a new type of airplane wing \u2014 and it could make air travel far more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/1361-665X\/ab0ea2\">paper<\/a> published in the journal <em>Smart Materials and Structures<\/em> on Monday, the researchers describe how they built an airplane wing from hundreds of identical, lightweight cube-like structures, all bolted together and then covered with a thin polymer material.<\/p>\n<p>The design allows the wing to change shape automatically, adjusting itself to whatever configuration is optimal for the current phase of flight \u2014 with one configuration for take-off, for example, and another for landing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/nasa-mit-shape-shifting-airplane-wing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team from NASA and MIT has created a new type of airplane wing \u2014 and it could make air travel far more efficient. In a paper published in the journal Smart Materials and Structures on Monday, the researchers describe how they built an airplane wing from hundreds of identical, lightweight cube-like structures, all bolted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91439","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}