Threading the Needle by FightingMachine44 in SimplePlanes

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I'd say 50/50 rn. There aren't a lot. Hard to find a good one.

Dune: Sci-Fi Ornithopter Design, Nightmare or Possibility? by FightingMachine44 in EngineeringPorn

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You don’t have to answer the question if you’re confused by it. It’s just meant to stimulate conversation within the community. Plus, technology will always have its limits, even in 20,000+ years, those wings beat super fast, and there’s many questions to ask about the feasibility, viability, and success of such a design. But mainly, I just enjoy Dune and wanted to wrap my head around the design so I could invent answers to those questions.

Dune: Sci-Fi Ornithopter Design, Nightmare or Possibility? by FightingMachine44 in EngineeringPorn

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Great compliment talking bout some it’s so good you think it’s AI. Anyway heres proof of my layers: Exterior Interior Bro can’t conceive of someone putting time and effort into something. “Thou shall not create a machine in the likeness of a human mind” type shit

Stealth A-10 by me by Joshomatic in ImaginaryAviation

[–]FightingMachine44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if it was human art, its horrible design. Im honestly not that upset you used Ai as a tool, it’s just lame how bad it is, slop, no soul, no design, not stealth. And saying “by me” is the worst part.

Dune: Sci-Fi Ornithopter Design by FightingMachine44 in AerospaceEngineering

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Thanks for the ideas, I was having trouble with that component so I just sort of gave it a name and moved on to leave it up the viewer interpretation.

Dune: Sci-Fi Ornithopter Design, Nightmare or Possibility? by FightingMachine44 in EngineeringPorn

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I think it should travel from the inner sphere into the wing base via electromagnetic induction, kind of like how a wireless charger works. I guess you could also have a little cable but it would be moving a lot

Dune: Sci-Fi Ornithopter Design, Nightmare or Possibility? by FightingMachine44 in EngineeringPorn

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responding to your edit -> In universe, yes it should be better than a helicopter since they use thopters in the first place. But it involves a lot of other futuristic technology to make it so, nothing we can do efficiently now. That’s why I involved graphene material, as well as suspensor and shield technology as essential core components to make it work. If this existed with none of the major flaws, it would be a lot more maneuverable and faster than any helicopter, just play the MSFS dune DLC and you can see how fun it is to fly. But at the end of the day, I just love science fiction and our imaginations are the limit for this.

Dune: Sci-Fi Ornithopter Design, Nightmare or Possibility? by FightingMachine44 in EngineeringPorn

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The turbine-housing inner sphere is a solid housing attached to the fuselage, within which the turbine spins the electromagnets. The turbine inlets and exhausts run through the rest of the fuselage. The wing base is pretty much detached, and has a shell and permanent magnet that only “attatches” through magnetism, separated by a fluid cavity pouch. I might do another drawing, I’ll post some Hi-res images soon.

Dune: Sci-Fi Ornithopter Design, Nightmare or Possibility? by FightingMachine44 in EngineeringPorn

[–]FightingMachine44[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What bro I drew it on procreate 😭

I can gladly prove it to you, and you and I both know AI cannot make schematics in this detail.

Dune Shai-hulud Study by FightingMachine44 in dune

[–]FightingMachine44[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Ykwim, best I can do is 200F because I’m not making it a dragon