Overview

• Overview of aniprop.de

The website aniprop.de mainly addresses the German speaking community. The following pages are written in English or refer to links with contents including English subtitles.

• /dlrhp Vita and selected papers of W. Send. English description of former and current activities.

• The test stand ANIPROP RL3, for the first time, is described in a paper Thrust Measurement for Flapping-Flight Components for the ICAS 2010 Congress (International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences): www.icas-proceedings.net/ICAS2010/PAPERS/446.PDF. PDF version of the oral presentation (5 MBytes).

• Experimental courses in English: One week course Physics of Flying. The course may be reduced to a minimum of two days or extended to a two-weeks programme. The number of participants is limited to a maximum of 16 students (four groups with four students in each group). Recommended are 12 students, where three students work at four different experiments at the same time. The details are subject to the customers' requirements. The experimental equipment is provided by the lecturer.

• Lessons for young students: We make wind! The experimental equipment is provided by the lecturer. Prices currently are listed on the German pages only.

• In 2009 a new project was launched which was initiated and got full financial support by the Festo Company's Bionic Learning Network. The project was intended to have a closer look at the efficiency of animal flight. An artificial hinged-wing bird with active torsion and partially linear kinematics was developed. Besides the scientific expertise ANIPROP GbR developed special tools in the course of the project for indepth research on the bird's components. The outcome was presented on the occasion of the international industry fair "Hannovermesse" 2011, April 4-8. More about the project may be found on Festo's SmartBird page. The project is documented in a short film "The Making of ...". A scientific publication is in preparation.  

Our business

Designing and making experimental equipment for research and education in the fields of animal flight  and the physics of flying. Gaining hydraulic power from the kinetic energy in a river with a new concept, the stroke-wing engine. Preparing results in aeronautical sciences and biophysics of animal flight for educational purposes. Thematic consulting for museums and exhibitions. Recently, Wolfgang Send was among the prize winners of the Berblinger Competition 2006 awarded for the feasibility study of a two-seated airplane Berblinger 2 which is powered by flapping wings.

The intentions of our pages.

The website

• reports current matters and new developments in our business,

• recommends scientific and didactic publications (basically on German web sites),

• wants to be regarded as a source of information covering our field of "moving wings".

For prices and terms of delivery, please see the German page supplies. We recomment to contact us for any questions and further information in English. Felix Scharstein's artistic and technical work:



scharstein.de Felix Scharstein Geräteentwicklung (the German name of his chief business).
Wolfgang Send Professional background