the demonstrator AlbatrossONE has achieved with ésuccess a new milestone: a flight «door to door» with wingtips that are a 75% más longer than those tested in the first phase.
Photos and víthe gods: Airbus press.
During the first test base of the hinged AlbatrossONE «semi-aeroelástatic», where Airbus searches for a concept to reduce aerodynamic dragámica and total wing weight, to in turn combat the effects of turbulence and ráwind sheaves, making the airplanesás efficient and reducing CO2 emissions, now the project is going toún más grande, sí con alas más large.
AlbatrossONE
Thanks to its amazing ability to travel long distances with little fatigue, the albatross seabird has a lot to teachñar to aero engineersáuseful about cóhow to improve aircraft performance. and the project team Airbus AlbatrossONE isá very interesting in this majestic seabird, testing the principles of free wingtip flapping, able to react and flex reacting to ráwind sheaves.
Hinged wingtips #semi-aeroelástatics# are notable because they allowía radical change in aircraft performance: a significant increase in wing span with a m impactíencouragement in wing weight reduceíto the resistance, what to driveía significant reductions in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. Lift-induced dragón represents approximately the 40% of a grandfather's dragón large. But this figure decreases as the wingspan increases.. The span of the semi-aeroel hinged wingtipsástatics couldíto potentially increase más allá of the 50 meters without increasing the weight of the wing.
Todavía lot of engineering work is requiredía, cálculos y muchísimas más testing before we can see this product viable on a large scale, but the future is más ecológic and efficient.
