Author Topic: Morphing plane wings - kinda neat (Read 300 times)

AKcurly · « **on:** April 26, 2004, 09:45:07 AM »

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-04/ps-awt041504.php

http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2004/04/25.html

curly

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 26, 2004, 10:13:16 AM »

But where's the anti-Boosh angle?

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 26, 2004, 10:13:57 AM »

NM, check the ad on the second link.

AKcurly · « **Reply #3 on:** April 26, 2004, 10:20:42 AM »

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Originally posted by FUNKED1
NM, check the ad on the second link.

Good catch, funky!

Even airplane designers recognize him as a putz.

curly

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #4 on:** April 26, 2004, 12:21:20 PM »

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Originally posted by FUNKED1
NM, check the ad on the second link.

He was beggining to worry me...

Octavius · « **Reply #5 on:** April 26, 2004, 01:07:46 PM »

Hey thats pretty innovative. Imagine a few years down the road, very powerful, yet small, onboard computers can run a complex algorithm that changes the shape of the wing on a very small and precise scale... mimicking a bird's tail and wing feathers. Remote controlled (or AI?) mechanical "hawks" that can behave like real birds - talk about concealed recon

Throw in some more AI even further... can you say blade runner?

That little owl rocked

Glasses · « **Reply #6 on:** April 26, 2004, 05:36:43 PM »

Yeah yeah wake me up when they start putting up airplanes that transform into big arse armed robots that walk and fly and shoot plasma beams and stuff you know like Macross.