The Real Life Dune Ornithopter... it was French!

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[TheEnrieb]

I can imagine an ornithopter working as a really tiny insect sized drone designed to infiltrate buildings. I cannot imagine it working as a normal sized drone or even aircraft due to air density, mechanical stress and gravity.

[SP-wken]

I don't know about you, but when I'm designing a machine I try to include as many moving parts as possible.

[discovolante]

2:00 im pretty sure a normal plane with a propeller would use far less energy than trying to flap 4 big wings at hi speed

[taitano]

So it sounds like the orthinopter is a kind of ornithopter.

[dashbrj]

the problem with these type of aircraft is a dragonfly doesn't scale nicely. We as human's weren't destined to fly, and lifting our weight into the sky takes a lot of effort. Thats why propelling hundreds of us im metal tubes needs a pair or two of big engines to do so. The mechanics of an ornothopter just doesn't scale. theres lots of moving parts that can easily break down either from metal fatigue or simple failures such as a busted linkage etc. Plus it would be a horrificly uncomfortable ride; with all that vibration being mechanically linked to the fuselage.

[joshuabessire]

Alternate reality where young Prince Napoleon and his mother escape to the Algerian desert in one of these, to lead the locals in a fight against his ancient enemy, House Hohenzollern.

[DocWolph]

Flapping or oscillating Wings on aircraft are like legs on land vehicles. We know how they ought to work, but we do not know how to make them survive working or power them to operate them for a useful amount of time.

[Hatzi]

the shape of the broken wings at 5:32 is.... ironic

[Timbhu]

The way he says ornithopter differently each time 😂

[DraconixDG]

The baguette thopter was not what I expected

[OscarNassar]

5:23 those wings were trying to warn the french about the Germans 😂

[Tomartyr]

5:17 An experimental French ornithopter turning itself into a 'windmill' before the German invasion was definitely an omen.

[brunol-p_g]

You’d be surprised by how many crazy French designs made it into today’s day to day life, to the point we don’t even think about it.
From the jet engine, designed early last century when airplanes where made out of wood and fabric and that today powers airliners and fighter jets, to the statoreactor (ramjet), the pulsoreactor that powered the V1s, the quadrocopter that today everybody flies under the form of drones, the automobile, etc…

[reillygallagher]

Orthinopter sounds like an aircraft powered by bone 🦴

[z.ace.]

I always find the way you said "Orthinopter" rather than "Ornithopter" is hilarious :D

[keenheat]

the biggest benefit of elastic wing tip is that airbus don't have to pay extra for extra wide terminal. The price gone through the roof even if you wing span a few feet too wide. A lot design consideration end up need to accommodating airport pricing instead of pure aerodynamic performance.

[ashtonpadilla]

Pairs of counterbalanced "fixed-blade" wings, which oscillate upon a desmodromically driven crankshaft, will be more efficient both mechanically and in terms of weight, and will be substantially more manageable/reliable/durable, than a hinged or split wing ornithopter. Utilizing greater quantities of smaller wings and an additional axis of oscillation should further improve effective output, as the winglets form a larger "dynamically ducted" wing, and reduce losses to aerodynamic drag by "slicing" upwards into the air, and "beating" downwards against the air.

[grahamtotte]

The shockwaves of the wing tips continually breaking the sound barrier would cause such vibration that any known material would never withstand this.

[gigachad]

French challenge: dont go crazy (extreme difficulty):

[ahmedshaharyarejaz]

Please make a video about flying AutoGyros. They are an overlooked underused technology.