Re: interesting link about ornithopters

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From: john_kagan <john_kagan_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:45:33 -0000

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "ray_harlan" <rbharlan@...> wrote:
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> Being another devil, I'd say that, since the CG is closer to the wing than the canard, that most of the lift comes from the wing and not the canard.

I wondered about the CG, never having built one. Do you feel that the wing lift is due to thrust vectoring, or from actualy airflow over the wings?

It seems that a monarch butterfly, for example, is getting "normal" airplane type lift off its wings, as well as getting thrust from the flapping. (It's probably obvious that I've never really thought about ornithopers much).
Received on Wed Jun 23 2010 - 11:49:46 CEST