NP: Dolphin-Inspired Man-made Fin for Swimmers

[Joe Allonby]

The marine biologist'sname is Frank Fish. I'm just saying.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=dolphin-inspired-man-made-fin
> "Culminating decades of research, engineer and inventor Ted Ciamillo, an
> inventor and engineer in Athens, Ga., who made his name (and fortune)
> building high-performance bicycle brakes, created what he has dubbed the
> Lunocet, a 2.5-pound (1.1-kilogram) monofin made of carbon fiber and
> fiberglass that attaches to an aluminum foot plate at a precise 30-degree
> angle. With almost three times the surface area of conventional swim fins,
> the semiflexible Lunocet provides plenty of propulsion. The key to the
> 42-inch- (one-meter-) wide fin's speed: its shape and angle, both of which
> are modeled with scientific precision on a dolphin's tail."
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> Henry Mu
> After last night's server move, KCUF is off the air until I find a DVI
> "gender-bender."
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