The insect plane

David Jones

Nature, 1999, vol. 400, issue 6744, 513-513

Abstract: When it comes to flight, birds and insects have a distinct advantage over planes — they can flap their wings. Daedalus plans to redress the balance by covering a conventional wing with a flexible, elastic fabric that could be flapped by a system of repeated inflation and deflation. Indeed, he even thinks that he can go one better than this, and flap the airflow around the wing.

Date: 1999
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