You Know 747 Wings Have Designers, So Why Don’t Eagles’ Wings?
Let’s talk about airplane wings for a bit. Over the decades of aeronautical design and development since the Wright Brothers’ first flight in 1903, engineers have come up with multiple configurations for wings.
Screenshot from “The Genius of Flight.”
There were originally biplanes with multiple stacks of forward wings, followed by monoplanes with just one level, but with some located in the side centerline of the fuselage and others at the bottom.
The overall shapes of wings have changed, too, from straight and perpendicular to the fuselage, to delta wings, and even swing wings and cantilevered wings. All of them generate lift, the amazing, invisible, essential force that pushes an airplane weighing tons or an Eagle weighing just pounds higher and higher,
Screenshot from “The Genius of Flight.”
P-51D Mustang taking off from Cleveland Air Show.
The point is, when you see an F-22 Raptor, or a P-51D Mustang, or a Boeing 747, you know their differing shapes represent design, intelligence and choices. All of these are attributes of mind.
But compare the wings of any aircraft with those of an Eagle, Mockingbird or Owl and you quickly discover that the avian creature’s body is designed in vastly more complex and amazing ways.
If you doubt that, take 11 minutes to watch the following beautifully crafted video from the John 10:10 Project on “The Genius of Flight.” Then honestly ask yourself if this could really all just happen by chance and without purposeful direction?
“And They Shall Mount Up With Wings Like Eagles”