fromFast Company
1 week agoChina wants to build a hypersonic drone mothership from old NASA tech
Beijing's engineers have reportedly designed a hypersonic aircraft carrier-essentially a large, super fast drone mothership that can deploy several more drones. It uses an variable oblique wing, a historic, experimental design that has one single wing that rotates depending on the aircraft's speed rather than fixed classical symmetrical wings in traditional planes. To laymen used to regular aircraft it may look bananas,
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