Solid State Aircraft

An engineering animation proposing the construction of solid state aircraft, machines that require no combustion for propulsion but rather flap their wings by means of an internal electrochemical musculature.

Such a design would allow the aircraft to fly in the atmospheres of Venus, Earth and Mars.

This video was prepared by the Ohio Aerospace Institute under a grant from the NASA Institute of Advanced Concepts

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• bird
• flapping
• wing
• aircraft
• venus
• mars
• aviation
• space
• electronics
• mechanics

[SouthEasternLoey]

xD cool!

[HAL11000]

It would never fly if the project exceeds $500 million, not billions. A long lived Venusian Mobile Explorer capable of surviving temperatures around 480ºC and pressure up to 90 atm would be around $1 billion.

It is more likely to be a balloon or an solar powered prop-plane with moving parts than an artificial muscle aircraft.

[MRburitz]

very very interesting. This might be our multi billion dollar project. I would definitely keep up with this

[rysliv]

cool but i alredy got somethin similar has a cam and does the same flying thing but nothing else

[DrBrazil1]

Beautiful.