Airbus mimics nature with 'Bird of Prey' concept plane

When i read "Bird of Prey" i immediately think of Klingon's lol.

What does it eat?

Well been in this business for 50+ years so Never say Never.

While the name kinda fits what it looks like, I don't think any airline's marketing people would go anywhere near a name like that for a passenger aircraft.

might work....might not. There are already concepts with more normal looking wing shapes but incorporating multiple ailerons with a variety of configurations including split surfaces and winglets...and no vertical tail. See X48B. This seems to mimic a birds wing quite well and with intuitively less drag. But that's just a swag....interested to see how it pans out.

Well, I guess it comes full circle. Many early aviation pioneers started using (or at least attempting) some form of biomimicry, such as wing warping and ornithopter flapping wing design.

I guess the airfoil shape itself began as a form of biomimicry.

Sometimes I read the synopsis, other times the comments - maybe the article lol..

Plese click the article and see the artist concepts. “Individual feather aka active flight control”

No positive or negative opinion.. but you’ve gotta see that drawing.