Taking a cue from raptors like the harpy eagle and the peregrine falcon, engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center and Dryden Test Flight Center have spent the past two decades developing the radical “active aeroelastic wing,” a “morphing wing” capable of changing its shape on the fly to adapt to flight conditions.
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