My Human Wings project. Can we fly like birds?

Recreating Leonardo Da Vinci’s flying machine, using modern technology.
Designed and demonstrated by Kirk Kirchev, Scotland 2019
Needs more work...

[heyitsleo]

You need some mechanical engineering to lighten the load on your arms. A human's muscles are too weak to push our body mass, plus the wings mass. Once the load has been lightened a ton, try going to an empty field, getting a full sprint running start, and try starting with a brief glide. The wing size is actually good, as it helps support our body weight. Small wings will make it impossible for us.

[Weirdisjustabrownandyellowword]

The birds in the trees in the background were laughing at him.

[withadan]

The wings curve when they go up, and spread out once they flap down. His wings are pushing him up and down lol.

[spencerkeys]

This is probably the hardest I have laughed in awhile

[drunkspartan]

I would say study the movement of birds and bats

[spadaacca]

The design needs forward thrust as well was the other things people have pointed out. So, you will need to be running to take off while the flapping happens.

[Cozy_vibes]

I've always wished too fly or run soo fast that is the reason i like horses and bird, its not abt how beautiful they are its abt how magnificent these creatures abilities are given😊😊

[acesin-etpp]

Thank God you didnt make those wings out of iron rods and concrete.

[_OfficalGhost]

If you’re around 70kg, the wingspan should be around 6-7m in length. You should be able to fly around 3-4 kg/m²- I would say that the wings themselves would be about halfway between an arm and a leg in weight to account for the feathers, Typically an arm is about 9 percent of bodyweight and a leg 18 percent. So two wings would be about 27% of a normal human's bodyweight. I would love to continue seeing you work on this and eventually making a newer model of the Abbas Ibn Firnas Invention. Keep up the great and growing mindset my man.

[bzsa]

Go on sir!!! Respect for getting this far

[nahum]

hi, i love your science passion with this

My humble recomendation is to make the wings as light as posible, maybe a little redesign iterations and brainstorm could work

[scarlett-br]

If you lightened up the weight on the arms and attempt to make the flaps less choppy I think it might work (you would also have to make the wings less heavy)

[KFACTS_Hindi]

U need to reduce size of wings then u can fly and also use exosuit for move wings easily

[tommyottoking]

i feel that an articulatable pair of wings that connects to the back of a harness jumpsuit with be able to provide better lift off. Something like the shape of a bat wing bone stucture with a less static material for the canvasing

[xlatheblackdragon]

But forreal along with the hallows bones and light body mass you need massively strong arms to flap wings to float

[jaminteal]

Needs to be designed like bat wings vs a bird IMO

[zjedinite]

Something is wrong here 😂

A for effort (please don’t stop)
F for weight to power ratio

Back to the drawing board my brother, loose the weight, by like %400 hence the conundrum.

Good luck!

[rayrous]

YOU CAN DO IT!
build a few more scale models.

[adrianjuanis]

@Hacksmith Industries u really need to try this

[minecraftplayer]

I’m not sure if you are still working on this project but I have come up with a design that I believe is much more achievable, if your interested.