While not as fast as the SR-71 Blackbird, this bird-shaped drone developed by EPFL researchers does fly just like its real-life animal counterpart. Called LisRaptor, this raptor-inspired feathered drone features morphing wings and a twisting tail to help it zip through the air.
It sports a bioinformed skeleton frame with feather-like foam structures, wings that can morph to different lengths, and a tail capable of twisting around the body axis. Experiments conducted in an indoor wind tunnel revealed that its tail twisting design generated aerodynamic control forces to initiate both low-speed steady banked turns as well as high-speed sharp turns.
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Flight experiments confirm the effectiveness of tail twist to control not only low-speed steady banked turns but also high-speed sharp turns by means of coordinated tail twist and pitch with asymmetric wing shape morphing,” said the researchers.
