Nature-Inspired Inventions · Volume 001
Birds
Fixed-Wing Aircraft Design Principles
Every fixed-wing aircraft flying today owes a debt to birds. Not because engineers copied a bird feather for feather — the early attempts to do that mostly ended in broken wooden frames and broken bones — but because birds were the only working proof that heavier-than-air flight was possible at all. For centuries they were the existence proof, the laboratory and the textbook rolled into one.
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- Format
- PDF ebook
- Length
- 49 pages
- Edition
- First Edition
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Inside this volume
- Introduction: Why Start With Birds
- What Birds Teach the Wing Designer
- Anatomy of a Bird Wing
- The Physics Every Wing Obeys
- From Birds to Airplanes — A Short History
- Translating Biology Into Engineering
- Structures and Materials
- Stability, Control and Sensing
- Ten Bird-Inspired Design Concepts
- Prototyping and Testing
- Failure Modes and Limitations
- Certification, Intellectual Property and Commercialization
- Design Workbook
- Case Study — A Bird-Informed Survey Drone
Plus appendices of formulas and rules of thumb, common reader questions, a glossary and further reading.
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