"If we can reduce drag on an airplane by even as little as 1
percent, it would create a tremendous amount of savings in fuel for
the airline industry and the US economy."
Source: Utah State University Professor Warren F.
Phillips, who, after 30 years in the mechanical and aerospace
engineering department at Utah State and plenty of experience as a
hang glider pilot, invented a technology called Twisteron to
minimize drag on airplanes as they fly. The idea is to bend the
entire wing to achieve minimum drag, a move Phillips claims will
save hundreds of millions of dollars a year in fuel costs
industry-wide.
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