NASA technology to fold airplane wings in flight - video

[Frank S]

And I remember when a big radio controlled model airplane had a wing span of a couple of feet. now the Navy has bloody drones larger than a jet fighter and cost nearly as much.
The video didn't show their collection of data but knowing NASA they had a gymnasium sized room full of people collecting data from a 1000 sensors and dozens of cameras. After all there is no use in constructing a multi million dollar model air plane just to watch it fly around in circles if the data cannot be implemented into real world applications. they can share this data with commercial airplane manufactures for enhanced flight system safeties and to create more efficient air craft lord knows Boeing could use come help just now,