Answer by Someone Else 37 for Alien Griffin Design
If you're open to messing with the gravity and atmosphere of the planet, heavy fliers become much more plausible (although at the cost of potentially making the planet less hospitable for visiting...
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Flight, and the dimensions of the surfaces that allow it, roughly follow the square-cube law. Simply stated, if you double each dimension of an aircraft's fuselage, the fuselage will intuitively look...
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In flight there are 4 forces acting in pairs: Weight vs LiftDrag vs ThrustIn order to fly, lift must equal or exceed weight and thrust must equal or exceed drag.Ease of flight scales directly...
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For any flying thing (living or mechanical), there are two primary concerns:The weight of the object should be as small as possible.The creature should be able to push as much air downward/backward as...
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Another question for my comic: my friend has made a demand that I give one of her characters a flying mount, preferably griffin-like. I have some designs but I want them to be plausible:How bulky and...
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