Why a morphing spoiler?

Ford GT is the new supercar as developed by Ford. It is demonstrating the active apoiler in a motor show.

In the meantime, a new aerodynamic system (aka ALA) as advertised by Lamborghini, help the new huracan performante to be the fasteest production road car in the famous track: Nurburgring. The methodology behind the ALA is it can help the car to turn.

Both seems cool huh? Sure they are. But they might not be after you see

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What if similar tech can be applied in the car industry? What if the downforce on all four wheels of a car can be tuned?

How fast that can be?

A wing that imitates those on a bird, or maybe kinds of, in more realistic term?

Fortunately, cars don't have to fly, and we don't have to deal with that degree of complexity.

Yet there are still some key points to be considered:

Lightweight

Weight bearing - downforce

Changing of shape - bendable

Span Extendable

Some design thoughs:

Two rod centric rotation design:

Steel backbone

Graudately changing diameter hosts: sorry no image yet

Hollow weight bearing filling structure.

Digital materials fabrication.

Gliding shades surface

Independent elements but connected - Materials proposal for now: HDPE.

An awkwardly hand-drew rough design.

Rough design the sliding pieces.

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