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It's back to the future:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_warping

 

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"Birds visibly use wing warping to achieve control. This was a significant influence on early aircraft designers. The Wright brothers were the first group to use warping wings. Their first plane mimicked the bird's flight patterns and wing form.[2]

In practice, since most wing warping designs involved flexing of structural members, they were difficult to control and liable to cause structural failure. Ailerons had begun to replace wing warping as the most common means of achieving lateral control as early as 1911, especially in biplane designs. Monoplane wings of the period were much more flexible, and proved more amenable to wing warping – but even for monoplane designs, ailerons became the norm after 1915."

 

 

 

 

 

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4 minutes ago, Thruster88 said:

Mike Patey is going to do something interesting with scrappy's wing giving a wider speed range.

Indeed Thruster, followed your hint to here:

 

 

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