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What Happens If An Airplane's Wing Breaks Off Mid-Flight?

Earlier this week, a flap came loose on a Delta Air Lines operated Boeing 737 mid-flight. Fortunately, the plane landed safely and no one was injured. Parts falling off of a passenger jet's wing ...
The Aviationist

DARPA’s XRQ-73 SHEPARD Hybrid-Electric Flying Wing Prototype Takes Flight

Designed by Northrop Grumman and subsidiary Scaled Composites, the unmanned XRQ-73 features an ultra-quiet propulsion system powered by electricity from a gas turbine. Taking off from Edwards Air ...
CompositesWorld

Using pi joints to expand a composite wing’s flight envelope

For additional margin, shorter pi joint segments were installed under the upper wing skins as well, where the wing dihedral transitions to a level dog-bone-shaped laminate that bridges across the ...
Aviation Week

NASA Set For Next-Gen Airliner Wing Laminar Flow Flight Tests

Credit: NASA/Christopher LC Clark NASA is poised to begin flight tests of a representative stub wing section that is aimed at dramatically enhancing the drag-reducing benefits of natural laminar flow ...