Back to the future - Airbus patents wing warping!
 

From this week's Flight, but not in the magazine, only online. Briefly Airbus has patented a method of warping and the associated sensing required.

As an aside, it would appear that the project was EU funded, but Airbus get the patent, which I think is very sad given the EU position on subsidies.

The link is here .

...just for the record, it is in the magazine. P.27

Anyone recall the F-111 fitted with NASA's Mission Adaptive Wing during the mid-80s?

There's nothing new under the sun!

Composite construction, Mission Adaptive Wing, Relaxed Static Stability, prone piloting position ; those Wright Bros really were 21st Century pioneers ;)

(After viewing the link, it's not wing warping per se that Airbus have patented, but rather the method of achieving same using articulating winglets. Snazzy.)

You missed out canard configuration BossEyed

The Wrights also pioneered catapult launching, but left the floaty boaty bits to naval architects.

Tallbloke, the term funded only refers to how financing was obtained but not to the conditions attached.

So I did - how careless of me :O

IF 'FIRST FLIGHT' WAS ANYTHING TO GO BY, THE WRIGHTS WERE ALSO ON TO WINGLETS AND BEING CAREFUL WITH RUDDER INPUTS - AS YOU SAID : 'NOTHING IS NEW' - sorry to shout!:D