Nature-Inspired Inventions · Volume 013
Flying Fish
Air–Water Hybrid Vehicle Concepts
Over warm oceans, sailors have watched flying fish burst from the waves, spread wing-like fins and glide for tens of metres before dropping back into the sea. Some touch the surface, beat their tails rapidly against the water to accelerate, and take off again, extending their flight. They fly to escape predators below — dolphins, tuna, dorado — and they do it by crossing the boundary between two media that differ in density by a factor of about 800.
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- PDF ebook
- Length
- 29 pages
- Edition
- First Edition
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Inside this volume
- Introduction: A Fish That Leaves the Water
- How Flying Fish Fly
- Anatomy of a Two-Media Animal
- Physics of Two-Media Vehicles
- History of Hybrid Air–Water Vehicles
- Translating Flying Fish Into Engineering
- Structures and Propulsion
- Control Across the Transition
- Ten Flying-Fish-Inspired Design Concepts
- Testing Hybrid Vehicles
- Failure Modes and Limitations
- Approval, Intellectual Property and Market
- Design Workbook
- Case Study — A Lake-Sampling Hop Drone
Plus appendices of formulas and rules of thumb, common reader questions, a glossary and further reading.
