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07-23-2019, 11:23 PM | #1 | ||
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July 24th, 2019 : Bird of Prey
This is a design that elicits a WTF are you shittin’ me?
Then I see it’s a prop job and electric, and it’s just a drawing not a blueprint so it’s just suggesting an odd shaped wing that would be much sturdier. But it’s “dumb old Airbus”* so maybe they really believe it. *Inside joke, I retired from Boeing. Dezeen said... Quote:
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This may be a inspirational ploy by AIRBUS, but there’s plenty of strange things going on up in the air from the people hooked on images of the Jetsons and Star Trek dancing in their head. Uber seems to want to burn through more billions than they lose every year already.
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07-24-2019, 11:31 AM | #2 |
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Self-flying and Uber's "plans" among some others are just fantasies and delusional.
Using biological input makes sense, but it should be kept in mind that birds worked on it for millions of years. |
07-24-2019, 02:09 PM | #3 |
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Copying birds directly is problematic because fixed-wing with engines is much more efficient in most ways and cases, and bird wings are designed for maneuvering using wing position. And even if flapping were better, we don't have something equivalent to muscles in strength and weight at the scale of an airplane.
But self-flying is probably a much easier problem than self-driving, as you don't have to differentiate detected objects into obstacles and "just part of the road", routing is much easier, landing sites are well-defined, deconfliction of routes is well-defined and has more options, and the sheer variety and number of potential obstacles is much less. But yes, any plans that rely on doing it at a profit in the short term are very probably doomed.
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07-24-2019, 10:41 PM | #4 |
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Bird wings don't do the same things as plane wings, they're more articulated.
Someone in the comments pointed out the Albatross has the best bird glide ratio at 22 to 1, whereas the gliders we discussed recently hit 70 to 1. Gotta admit they taste better though.
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07-24-2019, 11:04 PM | #5 |
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curious, how many gliders have you eaten? for that matter, how many albratrossi have you eaten? hmmmm????/
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07-24-2019, 11:13 PM | #6 |
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The bird lost the contest so logicly I was awarding it the consolation prize.
If you have to eat an Albatross to know it tastes better than an airplane then your culinary distress requires professional intervention to teach you to think like a logical adult rather than an emotional child.
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07-25-2019, 03:08 PM | #7 |
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After you kill an albatross, don't you have to hang around your neck for like months before you eat it?
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07-25-2019, 11:29 PM | #8 |
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Not me, the only bird I'm hanging around my neck is British.
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07-27-2019, 01:48 PM | #9 |
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I just want a jetpack, dammit they promised.
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07-27-2019, 02:58 PM | #10 |
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I heard that guy who was buzzing over Paris the other day fell in the Channel.
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