It took many years for engineers to find that nature knows aerodynamics better than man. Look at the profiles of a falcon and sophisticated airplane.
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Aerodynamics (2025 Update)
Aug 24, 2024
Last reply: 7 months ago
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Very interesting.
Have you noticed the little upturned ends of airplane wings, that most large commercial airplanes (other than stealth bombers) have in the last several years. Those were adopted in imitation of bird wings. I'm not sure but maybe recent high speed photography enabled people to see that bird wings looked like this when the birds are in flight.
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Lilienthal was studying the aerodynamics of storks in 1889. His work was the basis for the Wright brothers first gliders and then powered flight. I don't know what airfoil design was used but the storks were impressive STOL planes.
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The US used to name u-boats after fish but they may become even more fishy.
Fascinating!
Can a bird cruise at 500 MPH at 35,000 feet for 10 hours?
Can a bird do a round trip to the space station?
Rüppell's Vulture One Rüppell's Vulture holds the record for the highest flying bird in the world, reaching heights of 11,300 meters (37,100 ft) to be exact.
No airplane can
Please do not use shortened links.
That one expands to
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nothing like you claim in your text.
It shows an image of the comparative profiles. That is what I wanted to show. Works for others. Full link below
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I see a lot of links to news sites, that DON'T point to what the poster claims. It often has to do with sites that can change what's posted without changing the URL. There's also long links that some news program broke.
Well isn't that just because most people don't take philophy seriously? Many don't pay any attention to it.
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