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Pterosaur taking off method
Topic Started: Jul 30 2009, 11:25 AM (571 Views)
Carlos
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The fact pterosaurs launched themselves on the airs using the four limbs rather than the legs only as birds do was already known for a while, but here's a nice animation I found that shows how they did it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALziqtuLxBQ...player_embedded
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Oh poo, the video doesn't work :( Damn you youtube !

Edit: I saw it, it's actually pretty cool, it must have been a wonderful sight to see !
Edited by Venatosaurus, Jul 30 2009, 11:52 AM.



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Cool, but you might want to fix the link.

I'm still going to assume they used RATO until I see evidence against it.
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Fixed link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALziqtuLxBQ

RATO?
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Looks pretty good, I could imagine a pterosaur taking off like that.
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How could an azhdarchid take off from a cliff in the middle of a grassland?
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Rocket Assisted Take Off.
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That looked pretty good, but something about how it took off just didn't sit right with me. I'm not sure what exactly, but it just looked a bit off near the end of the launch like you couldn't imagine it working in real life.
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I think that the way the animal used the arms to launch itself was too slow; perhaps if it where slightly faster it would had been more believable
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On second look, I think you're right.

At the speed it was at (in proportion with the speed of the rest of the animation) it kind of looks as if it might flop onto its front.

Then again, I don't know a thing about avian physics.
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