Some crazy brainwave

[Tidings]

No idea where It came from.
One minute im watching TV, 50 best moments of children in need..
Next minute im working out calculations of human flight.

Yes call me crazy, it is rather strange, but I believe it is possible.
If a squirrel can use the air to travel, So can we, without the being of a plane or helicopter ect.
I've been having all these weird well, basically lets just say My mind is working on its own because I have no real Idea where it's all coming from.

If you stretch your fingers out as far as you can on your hand and wave your hand back and forth, you'll feel the hit of the air as if it were a solid object, not solid enough to stop you..
Now, throw a paper plane across a room..
it uses the air to glide and its weight to balance and then when it has no air currents to travel on, gravity simply pulls it back down.
now, IF for example, a human was in the place of the paper plane, with full manipulation of where to be, solving the fact of direction, own energy which take out the motor in a real airplane which is tremendously heavy and stay airborne for hours on end... the human capability to fly or glide isn't that much different.
Yes you can say there's hang gliders or things like that, but thats not a bodily function...
I honestly don't know where this is going to lead in my head, I just had to share it before It is forgotten about.

[Neversoft]

I think you should seek help.

Edited by Dean (Trialist Forum Moderator): Please avoid from posting pointlessly.

[Wig44.]

Seems like you think you're smart.

Would just like to say it's impossible for humans (with no birth defects...) to fly without outside assistance.

You would need to be able to reach a terminal velocity with a vertical component low enough to enable flight for any decent period of time, which we can't. Secondly, we would need a force to move us anywhere on a horizontal plane which we dont have. Sure, there is wind resistance (the basis of hang gliding) but our bodies have small surface areas for their mass. Considering gravity causes an acceleration towards the earth of 9.81 meters a second without any resistive forces, I'd say that your 'idea' (if you could call it that) is never going to happen/is wrong.

[Conservative,]

Paper airplanes have humans to give them the thrust they need to stay airborne. No offence but as much as I would love this to be real - it's not and never will be.

[Misawa]

Go do it then. Just be sure to write a will.

[Recursion]

And where do we create the uplift necessary to slow us down and/or stay in the air? You need something the shape of an Airplane wing or similar.

[Oleh]

Get really fat then really skinny? then make a carbon fibre tubing frame and staple the excess skin to it?

[Eoin247]

Get really fat then really skinny? then make a carbon fibre tubing frame and staple the excess skin to it?

Yeah this, become that guy after the austin powers movies. What was his name, big fat ******* i think.

Like this idea mate, but to be honest i'd need to see some more calculations/evidense before i would begin to get exited.

[Middlesbrough]

No idea where It came from.
One minute im watching TV, 50 best moments of children in need..
Next minute im working out calculations of human flight.

Yes call me crazy, it is rather strange, but I believe it is possible.
If a squirrel can use the air to travel, So can we, without the being of a plane or helicopter ect.
I've been having all these weird well, basically lets just say My mind is working on its own because I have no real Idea where it's all coming from.

If you stretch your fingers out as far as you can on your hand and wave your hand back and forth, you'll feel the hit of the air as if it were a solid object, not solid enough to stop you..
Now, throw a paper plane across a room..
it uses the air to glide and its weight to balance and then when it has no air currents to travel on, gravity simply pulls it back down.
now, IF for example, a human was in the place of the paper plane, with full manipulation of where to be, solving the fact of direction, own energy which take out the motor in a real airplane which is tremendously heavy and stay airborne for hours on end... the human capability to fly or glide isn't that much different.
Yes you can say there's hang gliders or things like that, but thats not a bodily function...
I honestly don't know where this is going to lead in my head, I just had to share it before It is forgotten about.

*Removed*

Edited by Jamesy (Forum Manager): Please do not post to cause arguments

[Special]

i'm pretty sure your theory has been tried many a time hence why we have things called aeroplanes nowadays