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I love the fan at the front. What a great touch. I wonder though if this can be done without hydraulics and based purely on a balanced board. So to dive you'd
by huhtenberg 13y ago
I love the fan at the front. What a great touch.
I wonder though if this can be done without hydraulics and based purely on a balanced board. So to dive you'd shift forward, the board will tilt and you'll get a sensation of diving. Or will this be too counter-intuitive to control?
- borplk 13y agoThe note about a balanced board is very interesting. I think it would be great. Especially if you are safely and comfortably tied to it so you could dive sharply for example.
- resu_nimda 13y agoI think the problem with that is that, as far as I know, birds use their limbs to control their flight, so the Birdly setup makes sense to me. Kind of inching my body forward or backward on a platform doesn't seem like it would give the right feeling. And how would you pull out of a sharp dive? I'm just imagining someone strapped into this thing face down and tilted way forward, and being kinda stuck there.
- Justsignedup 13y agook look, you wouldn't feel the Gees but its already looking fun.
- kbenson 13y agoBut that would be less accurate modeling of how a bird flies. Imagine yourself under water. You don't just "shift forward", you push on the water with various parts of your body to change your orientation. Flight is similar. This system seem to try to emulate that as much as it can.