Snowbird:Aircraft
Nov 18, 2010
In one of the monologues known satirist was this phrase: "Why do airplanes fly, but do not flap their wings!". This joke has lost its relevance after the graduates and students of Aerospace, University of Toronto, led by Todd Reichert and Professor James D. DeLaurier was invented by an aircraft that its wings. Or rather not the plane, and Ornithopter Snowbird.
That is the name given to this unique design, weighing 94 kg and a wingspan of 32 meters. Through the muscular traction Ornithopter was kept in air 19.3 seconds and flying during this time 145 meters at a speed of 25.6 km h
To disperse Ornithopter was used normal car, which at first hauled construction. Then the rope that Snowbird was attached to the car was uncoupled and the unit moved into a state of free flight, holding in the air only at the expense of their long flexible wings. In order to design set in motion the muscular force pilot who uses cunning system of cables. Emerging horizontal and vertical thrust lead design in motion and keep it in the air.
Snowbird inventor says his creation is perhaps the most significant invention in the aircraft industry over the last decade. Despite the fact that Ornithopter is hardly a practical mode of transport, he embodies the dream of many generations of people - fly like a bird. In order to maximize ease device with a pilot on board, most Reichert had to lose 18 kg, sitting on a rigid diet.
Design, which is the first step in the development Ornithopter was designed under the project Human-Powered Ornithopter (HPO). For the construction of Snowbird were used balsa, polymers and carbon fiber.
That is the name given to this unique design, weighing 94 kg and a wingspan of 32 meters. Through the muscular traction Ornithopter was kept in air 19.3 seconds and flying during this time 145 meters at a speed of 25.6 km h
To disperse Ornithopter was used normal car, which at first hauled construction. Then the rope that Snowbird was attached to the car was uncoupled and the unit moved into a state of free flight, holding in the air only at the expense of their long flexible wings. In order to design set in motion the muscular force pilot who uses cunning system of cables. Emerging horizontal and vertical thrust lead design in motion and keep it in the air.
Snowbird inventor says his creation is perhaps the most significant invention in the aircraft industry over the last decade. Despite the fact that Ornithopter is hardly a practical mode of transport, he embodies the dream of many generations of people - fly like a bird. In order to maximize ease device with a pilot on board, most Reichert had to lose 18 kg, sitting on a rigid diet.
Design, which is the first step in the development Ornithopter was designed under the project Human-Powered Ornithopter (HPO). For the construction of Snowbird were used balsa, polymers and carbon fiber.
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