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Venkatesh Rao's avatar

Cute but nope.

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Venkatesh Rao's avatar

As inтАж not practical for large enough payloads to be interesting.

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Venkatesh Rao's avatar

I think flapping is fundamentally limited by the medium. Blue whales can do flapping flight in water. Nothing that size will ever flap in air.

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enmote's avatar

Granted! It would be interesting to see what the scaling limits are. If I recall he provides some scaling laws in the paper for the different forces but would likely have some problems creating wings with the necessary flex as they got larger. Maybe some kind of carbon fiber composite?

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