Wing of Tomorrow Program: What’s In a Name?
Airbus, the European aerospace consortium, has announced that its Wing of Tomorrow research and technology program has successfully delivered the first of three-prototype wing-box demonstrators by which the airframer seeks to advance its wing technologies. The recently delivered prototype incorporates over one-hundred discrete technologies applicable to both extant and future Airbus programs. Undertaken in 2016, the Wing of Tomorrow program explores the design, manufacture, and industrialization of novel wing concepts conducive to upping the speed and reducing the weight of Airbus aircraft.