Photos: Flapping like a mallard
Back to: The wings on this plane go up and down
Credit: Institute for Aerospace Studies
No jet engine, no propeller. This ornithopter, designed by James DeLaurier and researchers at the University of Toronto's Institute for Aerospace Studies, is designed to fly by flapping its wings.
CONTINUED: DeLaurier's ornithopter rests in a hangar alongside fixed-wing aircraft.…
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Gracias por hacernos quedar tan bien (sic) a los hispano parlantes.
moves up and down in response to the wings moving in the
opposite direction. Try to land and the center section keeps
slapping up and down against the runway as it comes in,
making for a very, very rough landing by comparison to a
powered glide path. Hmmm... This falls into the same
realm as the concept of airship cranes -- nice in concept,
but impractical in implimentation for reasons based on
simple physics.
=-= The CyberPoet
you will have noticed that the bird keeps his
wings steady under a particular angle with the
ground.
This air plane can do exactly that.
Meaning, it can have a smooth landing on a much
smaller area than with a propeller driven air
plain.
Take the example of a simple flying bird. If one has notice, the bird stops flapping a few distance away before it land on ground. although, the flexibility of the birds wing should be u in consideration but still the aerodynamic wings can be design in such a way to achieve this.
Take the example of a simple flying bird. If one have notice, the bird stops flapping a few distance away before it land on ground. Although, the flexibility of the birds wing should be in consideration but still the aerodynamic wings can be design in such a way to achieve this.For example the wings can be divided in two portions, Front and Rear and during flapping the angle orientation of the wing should be 0 degree and as the wings stop flapping, the rear wing should be tilted at some orientation with respect to the co-ordinate axes, to make up for the Lift loss due to the flapping action.
From the people who brought Canadians nothing but paying their salaries, we now have ...
THE MECHANICAL BIRD ... lol
University of Toronto is, I believe, just about the stupidest place on earth.