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Just like ornithologists invented the first airplane, and horse vets built the first automobile, etc.
by drcode 11y ago
Just like ornithologists invented the first airplane, and horse vets built the first automobile, etc.
- tim333 11y agoThough airplane designers probably looked at bird wings for inspiration. Similar to how Deep Mind are looking at the brain.
- jacquesm 11y agoEarly airplane inventors tried very hard to imitate flapping bird wings for propulsion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithopter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithopter Some even worked.
- djcb 11y agoWhile they weren't card-carrying ornithologists, the Wright brothers studied bird flight extensively and explicitly used it for their designs. But they concluded that the flapping motion wasn't essential for propulsion, and could more easily be achieved by a propeller.