Page 42 - Festo Smartbird

Jonathan Livingston Seagull’s incessant feats of acroba-tic flight and his daring manoeuvres stand for the experi-ments, measurements, calculations and deliberations performed day in, day out by Festo’s engineers. The se-cret of SmartBird lies in the active torsion of its wings. Only by this means can the work it expends in beating its wings be converted into highly efficient thrust. Festo succeeded in taking into account the minimal movement of the wing torsion in the design of its innovative articu-lated torsional drives.