Fly Like A Bird!

[farri]

This

 

was sent to me by Steve Ridley, a new member here!........ I thought it was worth sharing!!!!Frank.

 

 

[Neil_S]

Hi Frank - thanks for sharing, I found it fascinating. Wonder where to next with the technology?

 

Cheers

 

Neil

 

 

[Ronin]

These are great, if you go to the Festo site they even have a penguin that flies underwater and a jelly fish version as well, cool to watch....

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

This

Thanks for the link, Frank. It's finally been done! Otto Lilienthal and plenty of other pioneers would be so proud.

It sure make our fuel-buring aeroplanes look like Model-T Fords!

 

Let's hope the technology can be efficiently scaled up to human-carrying size. Next step is to develop synthetic, self-repairing feathers...

 

 

[Guest Maj Millard]

Facinating stuff Frank and Steve...thank you. Surely that could all be scaled up for a man-carrying application. Wonder what the ride would be like ?? Seems to glide just fine with the wings parked, so one should be able to land it....take-off may be ineresting though......................................................Maj...

 

 

[eightyknots]

Absolutely fantastic. How long before there is an ultralight, two-seat version, weighing no more than 600kg and with a range of 600 nm at 80 knots?