Biomimic travel

      One of my biggest energy inefficiencies is the amount that I travel, so for my product design, I decided to look into incorporating nature into air travel. The animals inspiring my new design are the bottlenose dolphin,  kingfishers, and clams.
       Kingfishers are the head of my design, quite literally in fact.Kingfishers were an inspiration to the design of a new bullet train in japan, because the design of their beak helps reduce the amount of noise caused by the train breaking through the air around it. Applying this design to the nose of an airplane should have similar effects, making the plane quieter so it will be less irritating to those who live around the airport, and since it is, by nature, designed to reduce drag for the bird, it will also increase fuel efficiency, and possibly allow for greater plane speed, so you can get there even faster.

          All of the wings on the plane will reflect the shape of the fins of the bottle nose dolphin, which are the most efficient shape when considering hydrodynamics, which should be helpful in terms of flight because the speeds at which planes cut through the air make it seem like a firmer (more fluid like) substance.
            Clams will help with more interior aspects of the plane. Joinlox technology takes the sealing mechanism of clams, making it a cost effective way to join mechanics of the plane, along with being more cost efficient in terms of transport, handling and storage. Since this product is more flexible, it can allow the planes to have a more complex curved structures that was not previously possible.

             (On a side note the coloring of the plane reflects the coloring of the animals involved in it's design, specific to where on the plane their nature was incorporated)