S2_5_Human_Flight_V2

Authors

  • Edward Comyn-Platt
  • James Hutchinson
  • Emma Tebbs

Abstract

It has been suggested by Robert Zubrin in his book Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization, that humans could fly on Saturn’s moon, Titan, by flapping wings, of a reasonable size, attached to their arms. This is a result of the apparent high atmospheric density compared to gravity on Titan. The purpose of this paper is to find a ratio of these variables which would allow an averagely sized human to fly with wings of a realistically manageable size.

Published

04-09-2009

How to Cite

Comyn-Platt, E., Hutchinson, J., & Tebbs, E. (2009). S2_5_Human_Flight_V2. Physics Special Topics, 7(2). Retrieved from https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/pst/article/view/997