Smartfish

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The Smartfish is a two seated experimental aircraft designed by Konrad Schafroth which uses a lifting body configuration.

Unlike most aircraft, the Smartfish is modeled after the Tuna species of fish. This makes the plane fly steadily without error-prone slats, spoilers or flaps. The projected range of the aircraft is 8000 km at about Mach 0.9. There are few working model exemplars of the Smartfish.

A fuel cell-powered model has been built in collaboration with German Aerospace Center (DLR) and, according to the factory, flew in April 2007.

[edit] Similar bionic vehicles

• The road vehicle Acabion is also modeled after nature, being designed in the basic shape of a dolphin.

• Bionic Dolphin from California

[edit] See also

• Hydrogen planes
• Hyfish

[edit] External links

• Smartfish Homepage
• DLR model