Re:Feasibility of a Dune Ornithopter
by Sharlin on Saturday October 23, 2021 @08:06AM
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However, momentum is a problem. The vibrations, and thus stresses, induced on the body of the thopter must be ludicrous. When the wings go up, the body must go down, and vice versa.
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Actually this can be an explanation for the fact that in the movie the ornithopters have 8 wings instead of 4, like an insect.
On each wing position there are a pair of wings, one above the other. If when one goes up, the other goes down, and vice-versa, that eliminates the vertical oscillation of the body.
Interesting, I hadn't noticed that the ornithopters in the movie had 8 wings rather than 4.