Why? by Joel Levy

Author:Joel Levy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zest
Published: 2013-09-06T04:00:00+00:00

Taking wing

Birds also have a host of other adaptations to help them fly. They keep body weight down with hollow bones. They maintain a very high metabolism with better lungs than mammals, and they use feathers to keep in body heat. They have very large chest muscles and very large keel bones for the muscles to fix onto.

These monsters could probably barely fly and must have relied almost exclusively on gliding. The fact that they match up with our imaginary birdman with respect to weight and wingspan suggests that if we could manage to get airborne, gliding would be relatively easy. In fact, humans with wing suits can already manage glides of over 10 miles.

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