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Like many innovations Cheap Fut 14 Coins in engineering, a newly developed matrix of sensors, designed to wrap round aircraft, takes much of its inspiration from the natural world. The device is influenced in shape by spiderwebs, and in purpose by birds.

Scientists at Stanford University say that while planes share many senses with birds -- replacing eyes with radar and mouths with radio -- they dont have a nervous system to track microscopic changes in their bodies. A bird nerves and tissues allows the animal to sense whether a dive is putting its body under too much strain, for example, and pull up before hurting itself.

The scientists wanted to bring those senses to an airplane, so they created a cobweb-style matrix of sensors, which stretches around an aircraft and is used to detect strain and temperature. It will hook up to the aircraft's computer and allow a pilot to be aware of any tiny cracks or damages in the plane body, or detect excess air pressure impacting one part of the craft, before they develop into life-threatening problems.