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Flight engineers learn from birds and insects
Category: Birds, Insects etc., ScienceBirds, insects and other natural flyers are teaching engineers how to build flapping-wing aircraft that can withstand flying in a “messy environment”, through snow, rain, and wind gusts.
More at ScienceDaily.
See two birds in a mid-air collision.
Interesting article. I don’t see that much of it will make it directly to passenger aircraft but imagine a camera the that can fly through urban canyons along with the pigeons and peregrine falcons. Way cool. Of course there can be a real dark side with flying surveillance cams hunting us down…
BTW today the site is looking really weird in Safari 3.0.4 on OS X with everything scrunched to the left of the screen. It renders fine on Firefox though.
I’d like to see some of the designs they’re working on, Ed.
I checked the site out in Safari 3.0.4 and it looked OK. I’m not doing anything out of the ordinary, so the site should work fine in almost all modern browsers. Thanks for letting me know.