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Fractal Wings
wings with leading and trailing edges that fade fractally | |
Fade leading and trailing edges of wings fractally so that
they are
perfectly adaptive to the fluid they are slicing through.
Wings
should be made out of strong enough material and faded in
thickness at a rate at which the edges never
fully bend back on themselves so that when the edges
are
deformed the rest of the wing follows adaptively.
Some of JHC's musings on human flight
http://patricktimony.tvheaven.com Some astounding (and quite beautiful) wing designs. [wagster, Dec 12 2005]
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K.F.C. Kentucky Fractal Chicken |
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Is this like winglets? Or something else? |
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OK I must admit to being confused about this. I was thinking aircraft wings until "perfectly adaptive to the fluid they are sliding through". |
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If you made these wings out of something like minicell
foam and formed them into a suit that relyed on leg wings
for power, they could enable personal flapping flight.
Otherwise they could be used for powered ornithopter
flight or at the high end for one of the military's new
adaptive winged fighter jets. They could also be used for
adaptive turbines, propellors, diving suits, and flippers. |
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Presumably, they'd have an infinite leading-edge - and therefore an infinite surface area? - Well, surely that'd imply infinite lift! [+] |
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and hopefully not an infinite drag. |
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I wonder if had anything to do with the formation of this idea. |
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JesusH, what is it with you and human powered flight? |
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I remembered once you posted 3 ideas on how to do it in as many hours. |
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Thank you DesertFox for the inspiration. Just want to
make sure no one gets caught at the Rapture without a
pair of wings. |
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[DF] - The answer is in the (link). From where I have taken my quote of the day: "Sphericon Gear.
This gear translates rotational motion into piston motion. It might have an application in a conventional ornithopter." Thanks [JHC]. |
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