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FanWing

March 3, 2010

Check out the video below of the FanWing.  It’s a pretty genius application of Beroulli’s principle to the technology of flight.  If you are going to rely on Bernoulli and airfoils to get into the air, you can either force the wing through the air to generate lift (with jet engines, rotors, or the like)…  Or you can force the air across the wing to generate lift.  The latter is exactly what Patrick Peebles has done with his FanWing!  If he wasn’t the first to think of this alternative method of implementing airfoil-based flight, then I’ll bet that he was the first to successfully pull it off.  Here’s the video (fun part begins around 0:40):

It will be interesting to see if this tech can be scaled up for human transport.

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