Inspired by nature

The best pilots come from nature - but the nature and effectiveness of the movement of birds and insects is still technically unmatched. So it is not yet succeeded in humans, with a swing-wing aircraft (Ornithopter) into the air to rise. Similarly, the flight services such as a dragonfly in proportion to the size and weight has not been nearly achieved (see insect flight), although it is the first successful experiments with Ornithopterprinzip built after the small UAV (eg DelFly the Delft University of Technology). It was the bird flight and the aerodynamics of the wings model and motivation in the development of today's fixed-wing aircraft. Contrary to the rotorcraft: While turning the seeds of the maple tree as when a rotor gyroplanes without drive to the ground, but he was never as a model for helicopters. With new materials and processes such as CFD are also increasingly complex, elastic forms technically manageable, but that without the properties of natural materials for the foreseeable future would be reached.