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Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings (newatlas.com)
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Wait aren't all airplane wings bid inspired?

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 13 points 2 days ago

If you listen to the actual talk the bird they are talking about is an albatross and they are simply saying that to improve efficiency you need to make the wings longer and slimmer but then the plane will not fit in current aiport gates so they are working on folding wings.