Aviation bionics
Flight bionics is a scientific branch of bionics that deals with flying . For this purpose, various models from nature are used, whose principles of locomotion are useful for flying and the improvement of flying objects .
history
Already Icarus , the forecast could to with the arms attached bird feathers in the air to rise, with which nature served as a model for the fulfillment of the desire to fly.
Leonardo da Vinci made sketches for a parachute, the model of which could have been a "shielded" dandelion seed, and for a flying machine whose wing construction is reminiscent of the anatomy of a bird's wing.
Otto Lilienthal was influenced by the gliding flight of the storks . After studying the flight of storks, he began to work on a model of flight based on the storks. For this he wrote his book Der Vogelflug as the basis of the art of flying . In his further studies he established the fundamentals that are still observed in the aviation industry today, as they have a decisive influence on the physics of flight. It is not known whether he was also familiar with the findings of Bernoulli and Venturi .
The use of Zanonia seeds as a model for the wing layout of the Etrich Taube also dates back to the early days of aviation . In many cases, flying wings used the same layout, but also dispensed with the detached tail unit and thus resembled even more the model from nature.
literature
- Otto Lilienthal : The flight of birds as the basis of the art of flying . A contribution to the systematics of flight technology. R. Gaertners Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin 1889, ISBN 3-9809023-8-2 ( digitized and full text in the German Text Archive , digitized [accessed on August 30, 2017] reprint of the original edition, Friedland 2003).
- Lothar Brehmer: Nature - a pacemaker for aircraft development. Projects, Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-86634-344-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pterosaurs as a model for high-tech aircraft on welt.de, January 13, 2010, viewed on June 17, 2015
- ↑ Ulrike Vosberg, Franziska Badenschier : Leonardo da Vinci - Das Universalgenie on planet-wissen.de, May 11, 2015, accessed on June 18, 2015
- ↑ LM: Otto Lilienthal - Living and Dying for Aviation on wasistwas.de, August 9, 2001, viewed on June 18, 2015
- ↑ Lilienthal's aircraft designs on lilienthal-museum.de, viewed on June 18, 2015