Pictured: The Medusa aircraft operates like a jellyfish Source: The Canada Globe and Mail
Civil Aviation Resource Network, October 10, 2016 news: According to the Canadian Globe and Mail, the aircraft design has a new concept, this manned aircraft called "Medusa" and "lighter than air" completely breaks the convention: its design concept is to make the aircraft move like a giant jellyfish by combining lightweight materials and a new propulsion system.
Charles Bombardier, the vehicle's designer, said he first read an article in Scientific American magazine that explained how jellyfish use physical principles to become the most efficient animal in the ocean. Second, re-reading Dan Simmons' novel Andy Meine, whose protagonist, Andy Meine, is helped on his journey by a creature that resembles the female monster Medusa and a little like a jellyfish.
Medusa's ultralight spherical cabin is made of graphene fibers, a new material that is 100 times harder than the hardest iron. The cabin can accommodate up to two passengers. This cabin will be hung under a drive thruster in the middle. By applying varying degrees of force to the flap, this drive thruster consisting of the flap can be used to control the course.
The top of the Medusa is set up with an ultra-thin diaphragm, which can automatically shrink under the action of electric thrust, so that the aircraft moves like a jellyfish (of course, the actual situation must be different, after all, one is in the sky and one is in the water), or moves like a heartbeat cycle. The diaphragm is filled with gas that is lighter than air, so the aircraft can float. Controlling the embedded ultra-thin counter-pressure valve on the diaphragm layer, the aircraft can also move up and down in different air layers.
Is it possible to build such a bionic flying machine? Does it make sense to fly in the air using this principle? In addition to Earth, the Milky Way has many different planets with different atmospheres and varying densities. So, this kind of drive thruster that mimics the movement of jellyfish may be more effective than some existing aircraft.
The Medusa aircraft can be used as a research platform to test new propulsion methods and ultra-hard materials, or as a traveling tool. In addition, in the future, the boys do not have to drive a plane to propose, drive this jellyfish flying machine, the marriage proposal success rate instantly doubled by 100 times, and is not more windy? (Li Xiaoyan/Editor)