Daily Memo: Airbus Preps Wing Deformation Measurement Methods For X-Wing Demonstrator

On an A380 model at the Aerospace Test & Development Show in Toulouse, Airbus is presenting videogrammetry (right wing) and optic fiber (left wing) measurement techniques.
Credit: Thierry Dubois/Aviation Week Network
TOULOUSE—The design of the next generation of aircraft will benefit from new tools, such as Airbus' digital design, manufacturing and services. Meeting performance goals, especially drastically lower fuel consumption, will be inseparable from new implements in the research and technology phase...
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