Tech | January 21, 2011 | 3 comments

Is this the strangest plane ever developed by Nasa? The pivoting 'scissor' wing which doomed the AD-1 to stay grounded

source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1348985/AD-1-Is-strangest-plane-developed-Nas...

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It looks like something out of the latest futuristic Hollywood blockbuster.But this rather odd-looking plane is in fact more than 30 years old.Developed by Nasa in the 1970s, the AD-1 - or Ames-Dryden-1 - was a research aircraft designed to investigate the concept of a pivoting wing.Airborne for just four years between 1979 and 1982, it was only flown 79 times.
LINK : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1348985/AD-1-Is-strangest-plane-d...
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