Winged Humans

[Flag Pole Sitta]

heh, I'm glad so many people kept talking about this after I left, it makes me feel wanted. ^^ There were allot of really great ideas to think about... the most important being this is a fantasy, so physics does not matter. But I do want everything to be plausible...

 

[woodsman]

Um, as said fantasy & SF is not a field where realism is generally at the forefront of a plot!

However with Hawks etc. you have to watch the diet very carefully. Only eating certain amounts each day (usually small amounts) and then feeding denutrientised meat if they are over weight. This is to keep their weight down to enable them to fly, perhaps therefore your character could concentrate on this to bring in a small degree of thought and realism.

 

[Flag Pole Sitta]

Um, as said fantasy & SF is not a field where realism is generally at the forefront of a plot!

However with Hawks etc. you have to watch the diet very carefully. Only eating certain amounts each day (usually small amounts) and then feeding denutrientised meat if they are over weight. This is to keep their weight down to enable them to fly, perhaps therefore your character could concentrate on this to bring in a small degree of thought and realism.

I know the realism isn’t that important, but it's fun to think about. I did not know that about hawks, that's really interesting and fits in perfectly with my story...

Why do I use so many ellipses? I guess it's just habit. /rhetorical questions

 

[woodsman]

No probs. I share what few scraps of knowledge I have! and take any opportunity to learn some more!!

Actually I do the same! and spent so much time planning a world I haven't written any story yet!

 

[lin robinson]

However with Hawks etc. you have to watch the diet very carefully. Only eating certain amounts each day (usually small amounts) and then feeding denutrientised meat if they are over weight.

Having watched hawks gorging themselves on recent kills, I think this is odd.

Avoid this story if you are squeamish

We came around a bend on the Blue Ridge Mountain Parkway and there was a buzzard feeding on a dead deer in the road. When the car appeared he took off flying down the road. We couldn't slow down fast enough and were gaining on him rapidly. So he disgorged all that rotten meat he'd just eaten all over the windshield.

So hey, if your character gets in a car chase.....

 

[woodsman]

Nice!!

Yeah but thats it a hawk that has to take straight off from a kill, i.e. i the wild will stop eatin because it knows it will not be able to fly as well. Or it will 'disgorge' if it has eaten to much. In domestic falconry the falconer has to watch the flying weight, another reason for this is because the hawks also tend to get less exercise.

Kind of like: we could all live of severel burgers and doughnuts a day if we lived the life of a hunter gathering tribesman and still be fairly thin as we would be putting in constant, fairly exerting, physical exersice!

 

[Ursa major]

Nice!!

Kind of like: we could all live of severel burgers and doughnuts a day if we lived the life of a hunter gathering tribesman and still be fairly thin as we would be putting in constant, fairly exerting, physical exersice!

I take it we would be hunting the burgers and gathering the doughnuts.

 

[woodsman]

I'm rather skiled at this IMHO, tracking skills are second to none!!!!!

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I never thought about this, it's a really cool idea, but my character is based off of angles and I want something more traditional and majestic, but the dragonfly/bee wings are interesting.

According to different sources, the cherubim have four, six, or eight wings, and the seraphim are sometimes depicted as multi-winged, too. There's at least one source that says Lucifer had twelve wings.

And when you see the multi-winged angels in medieval art, the wings are usually fairly small.

So you could be traditional and have angels with many small wings (although sticking with tradition they would be feathery and rainbow colored, not bee-like or dragonfly-like -- which to me suggests fairies, not angels).

 

[tyrant Lizard]

I've added winged humans in a novel that I wrote. my birdmen had wingspans over thirty feet. I reasoned that earth's largest wingspan belonged to the wandering albatross, and have been meassured at 15 feet long! over three times the length of the animal. yet, when seen standing up and not in flight, the bird's wings do not look overly large. As for the tops they wear, I gave them back to front shirts that tie up at the neck and waist.

 

[asher marquering]

my cousin who is studying zoology and veterary sciences and his friend wrote a computer program to try and show human flight with bird-like wings is possible

the computer program showed that each wing would need to be at least three times the persons height, but it only used size as a variable

don't know if this'll help i just felt like sharing

 

[lin robinson]

Glad you did, that's pretty cool. So like eighteen foot wings. Nice.