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Originally Posted by freebeard
We're supposed to take this guy seriously?
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Absolutely!
It's bio-mimicry, where manned flight came from, airships, blimps, aerostats, submarine external hulls, fuselage, wing tanks, belly tanks, canopies, blisters, fairings, radomes, torpedoes, suppositories, valves, acoustic stealth, fans, pumps, turbines, keels, control surfaces, helicopter rotor counterbalance fly-weights, air-brakes, etc..
When you figure out how a peregrine falcon has 1-1/2-pounds of aerodynamic drag at 257-mph, you get the gist.
' ... the aerodynamicist must refer to a large amount of detail resulting from earlier development work.' Wolf-Heinrich Hucho, Preface, 2nd-Edition, AERODYNAMICS OF ROAD VEHICLES, December, 1986.
The Aerodynamic Streamlining Template has the peregrine falcon as an antecedent.
Trailing-edge technology!
