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F-18 with bendable wings
This NASA F-18 is part of an experiment into whether or not airplanes can be controlled entirely by bending their wings in flight. Such a design would allow the planes to fly without control surfaces on the wings, which is thought to offer much more efficient flight than today's planes.
July 13, 2012 4:00 AM PDT
Photo by: Daniel Terdiman/CNET
| Caption by: Daniel Terdiman
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