The aerodynamics of the human body is very interesting. This may sound funny, because human beings cannot fly, however our desire to fly has allowed us to adapt and innovate to achieve the same purpose. Man has always dreamed of being able to fly like birds. The aerodynamics of the human body is quite serious in many sports. To confirm this, he ends up with Lance Armstrong on a tour of France.

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The aerodynamics of racing bicycles against the relative wind is pretty serious. In most bike racing, riders top 60mph for much of the race and human aerodynamics are as serious as they are in modern car performance, fuel economy and directional control. Wind tunnel testing is underway for bicycle racing equipment such as helmets, racing frames, racing outfits. We know that NASA materials science is also used in modern sports, from skies to golf clubs, bobsleds to swimsuits, and from marathon running shoes to those bike components.

Aerodynamics, material sciences, and human geometry (biometrics, ergonomics) are as commonplace in the Olympics as they are in auto racing, Dick Rutan and the X-Prize, Reno Air Races, Space Flight, and the operation of modern military equipment. In the Wright brothers’ first plane, the pilot sat on the wing, so it was an integral part of the aerodynamics from the first flight.

Now we have parachutes, parasailing, ultralights, Gyro-Copters, Jet packs, etc, where the aerodynamics of the human being is a very important factor. Having had the opportunity to race street bikes in my day, I can tell you that it is a great component for performance. The human body being what it is, the bike is already quite streamlined in design, the way the body is positioned when you accelerate the bike past 185mph makes a big difference. Whether you’re shooting a man out of a cannon or jumping off the pier to enter the annual Hudson Bay Human Powered Flight Contest, this is no joking matter, the aerodynamics of the human body are so important in the races, the sport as it is for the birds of the sky or the fish that fly.

The aerodynamics and fluid dynamics of many species, especially prey species, will ultimately decide their survival, if they don’t have the right speed then they won’t be able to eat. If a species being hunted cannot dodge or move fast enough, then it will have no choice but to reproduce en masse to avoid extinction or to maintain tight formations, swarms, herds, or social order to use the principle of safety in numbers. The fastest bird, the peregrine falcon, recorded a speed of 217 mph in Germany during a dive. Most falcons can catch their prey in the air at a speed of around 100 mph, although usually much less. No wonder the military called the F-16 the Falcon?

The spinal-tailed swift has a top speed of 106 mph in level flight. So the hawk might have a hard time spreading its wings at that speed to catch it at the right speed, so it can live close to the hawks without being eaten and the hawk will go after lesser prey with a better chance of eating. If you look at the F-14, it has the ability to spread its wings out for slow flight and keep them swept for sustained accelerated cruise speed, very similar to the bird. The first jet aircraft with moveable wings was the well-known X-5, which had variable wing configurations in flight, as did the F-111, B-1, and several others. Many aircraft have been designed to change various other configurations for many reasons, the F-8 Crusader changed its angle of attack and the SST and Concorde changed their nose on takeoffs.

Most modern fighters have speed brakes to slow them down. All techniques stolen from nature, as birds adjust their heads in flight for visibility, adjust their angle of attack when the relative wind approaches for faster ascent, adjust their wings to dive, and stick out their legs to slow down. Well, yes, these techniques were stolen from nature, that’s more or less the case, but obviously we have improved nature’s designs in this dimension. After all, we are now building Mach 5 and other capable aircraft, which can carry many hundreds of tons in payloads. In skydiving you quickly learn how to maneuver your body to reach the desired path. A bird would do the same thing only it would be 100 times better since it practices all day every day.

Most thrown ordinances, like bombs, need to be thrown well below the speed of sound so they don’t actually create their own new trajectory as they fly away from where they’re aimed and need to be thrown. Having worked as a car wash in my day, I can tell you that, in fact, we may have stolen that idea as well. Aircraft, like birds, make many adjustments and play with settings that allow them to take advantage of various situations as needed, so, aerodynamically speaking, man has copied the observations he has witnessed of birds since his first flight. How about another example, the bald eagle, the official mascot of the United States of America? Well, it has a sour flight speed of around 50mph, which is pretty fast in terms of birds. While souring, the adult eagle’s wing span is between 6 and 7 feet.

The largest discovered was 7.9 feet, but the wings folded back may allow the eagle to dive at very fast speeds of around 75 mph, as it would be more difficult to achieve significant speed with such large wings spread. Different configurations and methodologies can also be applied to the aerodynamics of the human body with a bit of modification. Meanwhile, it has incredible precision in its vision, which would make military intelligence proud, since the F-15 Eagle is based on improved equipment and the human component, which is 3-4 times less adapted than the eagle’s eyes, but with the newest technology. again we have adapted to a better nature. If we look at the aerodynamics of nature and the process of evolution we see the most adapted species in the air like the Eagle and the Falcon, which are true wonders of 100’s of millions of years, we begin and appreciate our ominous task of reengineering. . As we seek to build aircraft, MAVs, UAVs to meet the needs of humanity, we must take note of this. As we develop smaller technologies and demand versatility, we will definitely seek the best that nature has to offer in the form of suggestions.

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A human skydiver in a dive also clocked 217 miles per hour, the top speed for the Falcon. We might ask, is the organic airspeed limit for evolution on this planet 217 mph? This currently includes our knowledge of the flight speeds of our most adapted species on the planet today. Is this figure correct for previous periods? What was the speed of the pterodactyl? Was the air thinner or denser below 10,000 feet? at that time? Would I have had to go faster? Maybe, but if so, from what? Once you’re the fastest and don’t have a higher component of the food chain to chase, why would you evolve into a higher performing animal? Well, if you played, had contests and agility demonstrations for procreation, pecking order, competed for territorial rights with your fellow species, then you could evolve to be better and have higher performance, develop higher cognition, hunting skills , defense skills and evolve to fly faster too. This would be in line with current animal and human behavior in our current period and the writings of the last 10,000+ years of recorded written history and observational study of species on earth.

We know from studying aerodynamics, hydrodynamics and racing that there are also problems with ROI or problems with diminishing returns. For example, if a pterodactyl were to fly faster, it would need to build more muscles, lose weight, and spend more time developing flight skills.

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However, this takes time away from the hunt. It would cause problems with their ability to fight other pterodactyls and would mean that a higher food intake would be needed. Then eventually a happy middle ground would be reached for the continuation of the species, the social order, etc. So is that committed or happy medium 217 mph? A man who free falls from a fully enclosed plane and uses the BMPs for a rapid descent at a maximum speed of 217 mph, like the Falcon. It is very interesting that these organic matter speeds that the highly evolved Falcon is so similar to the diving speed of a human being. We can learn a lot about how the human body interacts with the elements, and the study of aerodynamics still has a lot to learn from nature.