The osprey

[planedriver]

Not an aircraft video, but anyone interested in flying should like this.

 

To watch the way the wings work is amazing, to say nothing about it's fishing ability.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA3LtXnNIto

 

 

[Guest Howard Hughes]

I thought this thread was going to be about one of these!

 

 

[Admin]

Or one of these:

 

 

 

[Zibi]

Now that I've started learning to fly I get really amazed by the way birds manage to fly and how unfit for flying we are as humans.

 

When you look how much input the bird can have to it's wing shape, angle and lift generated by it and how much feedback it's getting throughout it's body makes me wonder sometimes how we can stay up there with the limitations we get.

 

If you look at that osprey it goes from a gliding configuration, that many glider pilots would envy, to shape suited more for jets, and then to almost a VTOL from water with a load that's trying to get away and all that on "bio-fuel".

 

I'd buy a plane that could do that any day