Re:Feasibility of a Dune Ornithopter
by ganzuul on Saturday October 23, 2021 @07:35AM
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The fatigue life seems to be the biggest problem next to power production. Superelastic alloys might survive though.
If the intuition is some kind of supersonic reverberation that lets the wings operate in a local low air density then it might not be that hard to find an envelope of lift in that regime.
If the intuition is some kind of supersonic reverberation that lets the wings operate in a local low air density then it might not be that hard to find an envelope of lift in that regime.