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I played Dune 2000 as a kid and remember vividly the four-winged ornithopters modeled after dragonfly wings. I wonder if it's practical to build such an aircraf
by personjerry 4y ago
I played Dune 2000 as a kid and remember vividly the four-winged ornithopters modeled after dragonfly wings. I wonder if it's practical to build such an aircraft as an improvement on helicopters?
- mac01021 4y agoThe wings on the thopters described in the novel by Frank Herbert were more bird-like than insect-like. I don't know which type, if either, will be more practical to build as materials technology improves.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoPlenty of people have tried. Replacing helicopters though? It looks like ornithopters don't scale well. This guy in Japan posts his various experiments in ornithopteria. https://youtu.be/dHIF_2OsA_8 https://youtu.be/dHIF_2OsA_8
- stevenwoo 4y agoI remember going through a fascination with rubber band powered paper/balsa ones in childhood, they were very light and fragile. People tried to scale it at the time helicopters were first practical https://ornithopter.org/history.rubber.shtml https://ornithopter.org/history.rubber.shtml
- SigmundA 4y agoProbably not, in the new movie they where very dragonfly like too and looked quite realistic, but man the engineering a materials science to make that practical, not sure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYPuhItRqVk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYPuhItRqVk