The Riout 102T Alérion Ornithopter; Frank Herbert’s Inspiration?

Um , ya , material failure . Um , dragonfly wings on a machine . Novel idea . Dragonfly’s can fly in all directions . But bio material can stand up the stress better than metals . It is extremely difficult to replicate . Um I believe there mock ups in the form of present day drones . And the vetol aircraft . Just not the proper wing configuration s .

🟦... This principle works fairly well in small toys,... But unfortunately it CANNOT be SCALED-UP to a size adequate to carry any 'Significant' Payload, (much-less a human pilot!).
.... The very physics of it show quite clearly (without the need to build one) that any further attempts at developing this principle of flight in anything larger than a drone would be futile and a waste of Time, Money and Energy,... and anyone working on this principle to that end should be given something VALUABLE to do instead.

Of course Herbert wasn't inspired by insects, it's right in the name *orni*thoper. Though I do remember that the ornis in the first Dune game remined me of dragonflies.

So it was quite a bit ahead of it's time. We'll with current technology we should be more than able to build a orinthmopter and it be a viable ultralight aircraft for personal use.

Ok, I watched Dune on Netflix 24 hr ago. And now this pops up on my YT.............Where’s the tin foil😂?

With all the advances in angeans and material, why no one has build one, unless is a remote control toy?

Must be possible today, given carbon fiber, computer power and research into bio mimicry!

Very interesting thanks 👍

It is obvious that the flapping movement is not healthy for the materials used and will lead to fadigue.

Maybe the inspiration for the ‘ornithopters’ in the Villeneuve film, but not Herbert’s vision from the book. The descriptions of the way the wings worked in the book are clearly of a bird-like wing, not insect-like. Also the wings weren’t the sole source of propulsion.

that thing would never fly...bird and bug wings do not flap up and down...they flex and rotate while moving up and down...material science have not advance to build such a wing on a large scale even today

There ornithopters aren’t genuine. The weight to thrust ratio compared to dragonfly wings is terrible. They’d have to be 90% lighter.

These machines are just airplanes.

et en cas de panne moteur ces petites ailes ne vont pas servir à grand chose sinon tuer tout le monde

Please Google 'Kaman flying truck'

Please Google 'Kaman flying truck'

these flying vehicles shown in the movie Dune are based on the dragonfly flight system, and the book clearly describes ornithopters based on the bird flight system, i.e. slow flight with lazy flapping of wings

Wow, this Riout 102T Alérion Ornithopter I have never seen before (and I have seen a lot of old special aircrafts, in books)

I just need to find the plans.

This is just too cool! To have taken the idea this far, especially after the early experimental days of flight, is totally bizarre. Thanks!

For me: it was entompother.

Thanks. Didn't know about that one, but they wouldn't have succeeded. Of course, Herbert's books paint a picture of something much more bird-like, with interleaved metal feathers forming a wing that even folds under when not in use. But today's CGI also wouldn't be up to that. Way to much $ & computing. tavi.

The vibration would rip apart the cockpit and shake loose any rivets, screws or bolts, and (if it were possible to sit in it) make flying in it an unbearable, epileptic experience of teeth chattering horror. But for drones, possibly.

These 'dragonfly' style wings work on frequency (vibrational), not lift like a traditional 'wing'. Insects use a different method to fly. The vibration of the wings create a different type of lift.

Looks like the cool insect shuttle on the sci-fi show LEXX.

Somebody needs to revisit this idea with modern materials and see just how far they can take it.

Make it real please

Little to many faders ??

They were in dune 2 the game as well

One of these days some one is gonna make an ornithopter and its gonna take off on them during the wind tunnel test for the wings flapping...

Lol! That can not be considered "creative" because it never worked & won't work, but was built to work!

It was a failure, an expensive failure!

He didn't understand aerodynamics, but France paid him to build a plane...who was dumber?

Very interesting. I wonder how the directional controls worked !? 🤔

бред какой-то, возвращается в прошлое, и что это даст?😂

Seems this could benefit from modern materials such as carbon fiber and magnesium

Жтот " пепелац" вряд-ли полетит.....

"The French Copy Nobody, and Nobody Copies the French"

Shouldn't these be called "entymopters" since they use insect flight mechanics rather than bird mechanics?

Ornithopters are fine for insects, but clumsy for manmade aircraft.

I've just taken the Dune Ornithopter for a test flight around my home town of York in Microsoft Flight Simulator VR and I can honestly say it was absolutely incredible......!

I do love that it has wheel wells, which means they actually expected this thing to fly well enough that retracting the gear would be needed.

So the Riout 102T never existed

There is NO WAY you could make a thing like that and have it to work more than few seconds. The Mechanical stress would be so huge, it will brake itself apart within seconds.

I love the flywheel in the powertrain. The aluminum skin smooth construction was way premature.

I'd like to see how the design AI programs would layout the wing structures in a dragonfly type flappy plane. Or do just start with a biomemic design.

Looks a whole lot like a Battlefield 2142 gunship.

Lost in an accident = it didn’t work.

Движения крыльев должны быть круговыми а не вверх вниз что орнитоптер как вертолет летал