Flexible wing flies with feeling

News - 06 October 2020

A wing that can actively absorb gusts of wind. The scale model of such a wing won three PhD students a prize this summer. The future wings react to changing air currents.

Read the article by Jos Wassink in university newspaper TU Delta.

Moveable flaps and piezo-controlled fins enable the wing model to react on changes in the air currents (video still).