How NASA Tests Shapeshifting Plane Wings

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<div>Drive 100 miles or so to the northeast of Los Angeles, into the California desert, and you'll find yourself amidst a vast expanse of dried up lake beds. It's not the nicest place, but for the engineers at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, 66 square miles of flat, dry, hard clay provides the ideal runway ...</div>

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