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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (3 children)

This must be a poor reconstruction, no? how could this possibly fly? Tiny wings and a massive imbalance with like 2/3 of the thing being neck and head?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Almost the entire weight of the animal on the drawing is between its wings, and by that human there, there are more than 10 m of wingspan. Many small aiplanes are smaller than it.

Pterosaurs had a very unusual body shape that is nothing like birds.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

My very quick research leads me to believe they have very little skeletal remains that they used to guess what this guy must have looked like. I could be wrong

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

you can make anything fly if you strap a big enough rocket to it.

S'why I never understood the expression 'when pigs fly'. Like... do you really want me to abuse a pig?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just look at the F-117A. That thing has the aerodynamic profile of a school bus made of cinder blocks. It "flies" because it goes fast enough to just about hit escape velocity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The F117a isn’t actually that bad. It’s very unstable, mind, but it’s not relying on brute force for lift.

It’s not fast at all. Its slowness is a design feature since going fast reduces stealth- by generating more heat in the exhaust and more noise. It also means the engines can be smaller which reduces the size of the engines (which, the fans are a nice flat surface to generate returns off of,)