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Should airplanes look like birds? Engineers envision more fuel-efficient design
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| November 21, 2010
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Posted on 11/21/2010 4:41:47 PM PST by decimon
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The modern airplane design works well, but from a fuel efficiency standpoint, could planes be designed more aerodynamically -- to lower drag and increase lift? Credit: RJ Huyssen/NU,RSA
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posted on
11/21/2010 4:41:51 PM PST
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decimon
To: decimon
Don’t birds carry a lighter payload than the average plane?
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posted on
11/21/2010 4:45:23 PM PST
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Argus
To: Argus
Don’t birds carry a lighter payload than the average plane? Good point. Birds also travel much slower.
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posted on
11/21/2010 4:48:26 PM PST
by
Pollster1
(Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
To: decimon
To make all of the Greenies happy, just release a Chevy Volt version of the airplane.
Just power it on batteries.
Better yet, why not come up with a windmill powered aircraft?
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posted on
11/21/2010 4:49:23 PM PST
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KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: decimon
Airplanes generally have wings, a body and a tail. They already look like birds.
To: KoRn
Energy efficiency is a laudable objective, even if the ‘Global Warming’ agenda is not. Fuel is going to be a lot more expensive in years to come, and frankly, the last thing any of us should want is to have any more dependence on the Saudi Arabs than we absolutely have to have...
To: KoRn
Great, we can call it the Chevy “Crash and Burn”. Or maybe the Chevy Fireball.
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posted on
11/21/2010 5:30:41 PM PST
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Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: sinsofsolarempirefan
I totally agree, but energy efficiency need not be legislated or subsidized. The free market should be in control.
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posted on
11/21/2010 5:30:59 PM PST
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KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: decimon
They already are working on blended wing body airplanes to increase fuel efficiency.
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posted on
11/21/2010 5:31:39 PM PST
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Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: decimon
Hmmm... an Etrich
Taube with retractable gear and no external bracing...
Mr. niteowl77
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posted on
11/21/2010 5:40:11 PM PST
by
niteowl77
(I don't mind them stewing in their own juices, but I object to them stewing me in their own juices.)
To: decimon
It turns out that they had independently re-designed a bird shape Maybe God knows what He's doing.
To: KoRn
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posted on
11/21/2010 5:44:20 PM PST
by
TChad
To: decimon
Because airplanes shaped like aardvarks fly so well...LOL
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posted on
11/21/2010 6:18:42 PM PST
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: rockrr
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posted on
11/21/2010 6:35:17 PM PST
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decimon
To: decimon
Should airplanes look like birds? Engineers envision more fuel-efficient design 
I think we're going to need a bigger bird Mr. Kelleher.
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posted on
11/21/2010 6:37:09 PM PST
by
RoadKingSE
(How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash ?)
To: decimon
Amazing how the birds just happened to evolve with the epidome of aerodynamic styling. Mega Sarc!
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posted on
11/21/2010 6:53:26 PM PST
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Tucker39
To: Tucker39
Amazing how the birds just happened to evolve with the epidome of aerodynamic styling. Mega Sarc!
Do you mean epitome?
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posted on
11/21/2010 7:00:27 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: decimon
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posted on
11/21/2010 7:11:01 PM PST
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: decimon
Just use what we have more efficiently.
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posted on
11/21/2010 7:16:25 PM PST
by
Eye of Unk
(If your enemy is quick to anger, seek to irritate him. Sun Tzu, The Art of War.)
To: Eye of Unk
You want a front seat on that. More wind but less heat.
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11/21/2010 7:19:16 PM PST
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decimon
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