Radical bi-directional flying wing design gets NASA funding

Gizmag:

A team that has created a supersonic jet design resembling a flying shuriken has been awarded a US$100, 000 grant from NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program to continue development of the aircraft. Aside from looking suitably futuristic, the concept plane’s four-pointed star design serves a practical purpose. By rotating in mid air, the plane can transition between broad-wing subsonic and shorter wingspan supersonic configurations.

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4 Replies to “Radical bi-directional flying wing design gets NASA funding”

  1. Surely this was invented by muslims? After all, they invented everything else, didn’t they?

  2. joe get: If Obama gets in again, give it a couple of years and it will be included in the exhibition ‘1002 inventions Muslims gave the World’.