What kind of jobs have the students taken, who have been taught by you
in biomimetics?
Are there biologists working in otherwise traditional engineering
companies, or vice versa, engineers in the biological field? Can they
apply their biomimetic knowledge?
Regards,
Ulrike Wegst
PS: The Spruce goose showed that also large aircraft can, in principle, fly.
It also showed, that its design was inefficient --- as a natural
organism it would have been dead very quickly.
Similarly, a wooden Jumbo could be built, but would it be able to
compete with aluminium and composites in this application (cargo volume
and weight, range, ease of manufacture, cost, etc.)? Wouldn´t we have
more commercial wooden aircraft, if it could?
Spruce Goose vs Jumbo:
Wingspan:
747 = 320 feet
Spruce goose = 212 feet
Length:
747 = 232 feet
Spruce goose = 219 feet
Maximum Take-off Weight:
747 = 900 000 lb (250 000 lb Payload)
Spruce goose = 400 000 lb (130 000 lb Payload)
Range:
747 = 7 670 nautical miles (14 205 km)
Spruce goose = 70 feet
James R. Cunningham schrieb:
>Oh, we call them Jumbos too. But they don't have anywhere near the
>wingspan of the Spruce Goose (about 97 meters for the Goose, if I
>remember correctly), so I'd say a Jumbo could be built out of wood. And
>the Goose would have been an effective aircraft for it's time, if not so
>grossly underpowered.
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