A unique team is studying ways to prevent insect impact remains from sticking to an aircraft's wing in flight.
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team researcher John Gardner lies inside the Basic Aerodynamics
Research Tunnel, or BART, to prep leading edge of a scale model wing for
a blast of bugs from the tunnel's bug "gun."
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Researchers Ron Penner (l) and John Gardner prep the device used to transport fruit flies into the wind tunnel.
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Other
members of the bug team are shown at work as they test options for
preventing bug impact build-up on the leading edges of aircraft wings.
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