Comments on: Morphing Planes Moving Towards Reality

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By: Walter Huffman

Walter Huffman — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 16:12:34 +0000

why coldn’t ya use A rolled up film external skin attached to the leading edge and the trailing edge.the conture made adjustable using styrofoam movable pannels to controll the conture of wing the rolled skin taking care of width problems phunumatics built into reienforced foam units provide all adjustments at light weight to strength ratio. Voids could be agmented with inflatable bags where needed. Hay have youall ever thought of helium filled bages insde of wings and other voids in plane to give added lift.

By: James

James — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:26:11 +0000

It’s not conceptually different from a “swept wing.” But the swept wing, while elegant on the drafting table, never worked out that well in practice. There was a weight penalty; the mechanisms required a lot of maintainance and sometimes failed; the wings ended up creating more drag than anticipated when folded back; the interior of the wing was given over to the mechanism while other bombers could carry fuel there. I think Greg is right in his estimate of two generations.
Incidentally, Goodyear proposed an inflatable wing back in the sixties for vehicles reentering from space. Even built lab models. They were made out of steel-reinforced rubber. Could a combination of internal pressure and external drag be used to shape the wing? I don’t think computer power is a limiting factor, BTW. I think materials science is.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:59:08 +0000

Although this science is a generation or two away it is very likely to become common place. Though to the extent of turning a delta wing into a large surface straight wing might not be happening tomorrow, the ability for a plane to change its wing surface to increase maneuverability, control, speed, and effiency is very likely to be implemented into some form of military aircraft within the next generation or two. I see the ability to do away with the current maneuvering surfaces such as flaps and moving more towards a wing that adjust its shape to achive this result. Think more like bird wing than mechanical.

By: pedestrian

pedestrian — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:16:11 +0000

I don’t think this will ever be integrated into a military aircraft, since it is likely for complicated structure and components that would add onto its weight, cost, also requiring delicate maintenance, making it an expensive platform. I also imagine that a high powered computer would need to be used for calculations to control the actuators components to maintain and change the frame, adding onto cost.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:50:50 +0000

The author Dale Brown has had the idea of morphing aerodynamic surfaces in his book series for ages. Basically, the idea is that you use hydraulic actuators (Don’t think flaps, think sections of the airframe pushing out) beneath a flexible skin to subtly change the shape of the plane.