Bangalore: As overseas automakers AeroMobil and Terrafugia prepare to launch their flying cars, a 56-year-old engineer in Bangalore is attempting to rewrite the science for the next generation of such vehicles.
The Wright brothers were able to recreate a bird's flight, without requiring their plane to flap its wings -something that Terrafugia and AeroMobil have followed.AK Vishwanath is trying to replicate this, using the insect paradigm.
Insects manipulate the air in a different way. The airflow that an insect creates through flutter is the key to Vishwanath's invention. The USP of his flying car, which is still in the proof-of-concept stage, is that it can take off and land vertically and can be retrofitted into any car. "We have to rescience the technology and create a platform which we can milk for the next century," said Vishwanath, a graduate of electrical engineering from BMS College of Engineering.
25/10/14 Krithika Krishnamurthy/Economic Times
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The Wright brothers were able to recreate a bird's flight, without requiring their plane to flap its wings -something that Terrafugia and AeroMobil have followed.AK Vishwanath is trying to replicate this, using the insect paradigm.
Insects manipulate the air in a different way. The airflow that an insect creates through flutter is the key to Vishwanath's invention. The USP of his flying car, which is still in the proof-of-concept stage, is that it can take off and land vertically and can be retrofitted into any car. "We have to rescience the technology and create a platform which we can milk for the next century," said Vishwanath, a graduate of electrical engineering from BMS College of Engineering.
25/10/14 Krithika Krishnamurthy/Economic Times
