(Audio) Engines of Our Ingenuity - Wingtips

Today, airplanes, birds, and their wingtips. The University of Houston’s College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. I’m fascinated by wingtips: The black wingtips of a white ibis or the white wingtips of a black vulture -- the blunt wingtip of a P-51 Mustang or the Spitfire’s wings curving almost to a point. How does a wing end, how should it end, and why? My wingtip fascination began a few years ago… (www.uh.edu) Mais...