Insights and observations of fascinating aspects of birds, bugs and flying seeds, of inspired aerodynamic concepts, and
visions of past, present and future aircraft developments are presented. The evolution of nature's flyers, will be
compared with the corresponding evolution of commercial aircraft. We will explore similarities between nature's
creations and man's inventions. Many critical areas requiring future significant technology based solutions remain. With
the advent of UAVs and MAVs, the gap between "possible" and "actual" is again very large. Allometric scaling
procedures will be used to explore size implications on limitations and performance capabilities of nature's creations.
Biologically related technology development concepts including: bionics, biomimicry, neo-bionic, pseudo-mimicry,
cybernetic and non-bionic approaches will be discussed and illustrated with numerous examples. Technology
development strategies will be discussed along with the pros and cons for each. Future technology developments should
include a synergistic coupling of "discovery driven", "product led" and "technology acceleration" strategies. The
objective of this presentation is to inspire the creative nature existing within all of us. This is a summary all text version
of the complete report with the same title that report includes approximately 80 figures, photos and charts and much
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