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Tiny vanes glued to planes promise big savings for US Air Force
A surprisingly simple tweak is making a venerable military transport aircraft more efficient. Literally gluing a few microvanes to the rear fuselage of a C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane can result in ...
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It turns out that simply gluing a '3D-printed board' to an old military aircraft can save 2.2 billion yen in fuel costs per year
The U.S. Air Force ... for US Air Force The C-17, a large cargo plane manufactured by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing), was introduced in 1995 as the successor to the Lockheed C-141 Starlifter ...