Why is it so difficult for us to just replicate a bird instead of the kind of fixed wing aircraft we have?

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Why is it so difficult for us to just replicate a bird instead of the kind of fixed wing aircraft we have?

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Animals may have some very advanced designs guided by millions of year of evolution, not one of them has ever evolved a wheel.

If a bird had a key engine to generate wind for it, it wouldn’t need to flap either. It could just glide like a plane. Our planes are just better at doing what they are designed for than a hinged wing and I suspect if you tried it there would be huge forces on the joints and it would probably break.

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