Biomechanical Plane Theory

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Anyone in the Living Plane community is free use this journal to explain how their plane exist, if your plane is biomechanical.

"Biomechanical Plane"


Definition:

A type of sentient plane where non-vital mechanical and electrical components like seats, internal lights, TV screens etc, are replaced with biological structures like organs, with these organs working in unison with the vital mechanical and electrical components in order to keep each other operational and maintained.

E.g. The brain (biological) uses the plane's electrical wiring (mechanical) as the nerves to control all the components.

Note:
  • Vital components are those necessary to allow the plane to fly safely. E.g. The engines, ventilation, GPS etc.
  • Non-vital components are components that are not necessary for the plane's survival. E.g. Tv screens, seats, cooking appliances, toilets etc.

General Info:


It is impossible for a human to ride inside a Biomechanical plane. The doors can't be opened and nothing can be seen behind the windows. The most notable feature is their flexible body. They are able to move their wings like arms, their landing gear like legs, and any other part can move similar to an animal or human. Their whole body is basically semi-anthropomorphised (human-like, but not physically human). Another notable feature is their face, especially the mouth. The mouth is fleshy yet tough on the inside but metallic on the outside, often with metallic teeth. The eyes depends on the plane's model, but it is often the front windsheild.


Biological, mechanical and electrical relationship:


Digestive system:


this system produces chemical energy for the biological systems, as well as any type of flammable liquid processed from the food. Water is consumed not only to hydrate the biological parts, but it's also used as a source of hydrogen which can be used to synthesise hydrocarbons from the animal matter. The flammable liquid (any kind of hydrocarbon with more than five carbon atoms) is stored in the fuel tanks for the engines. Much like how sugar is immediately processed in the human body, Kerosene is immediately transferred to the fuel tanks in the plane's body. Also, just like how sugar is energy dense and therefore have a pleasant sweet taste as a survival mechanism, Kerosene being the most efficient and energy dense of fuels, also have a sweet taste for a plane.

The digestive system is capable of absorbing several more metals than most animals. Some unique metals absorbed includes Aluminium, Copper, Titanium and also (a metalloid) silicone. These elements are vital for the Plane's Mechanical Systems, and are used to maintain them via the circulatory system.

Nervous system:

The Brain uses the electrical wiring as the nerves to control all the systems of the plane, with biological nerves reaching the "nooks and crannies" deep in the organs. Most of the plane's on board computers still exist which significantly aids in the unique survival of a plane, for example navigation. Many sensors still exist (attitude indicator, air speed etc) which is vital to keep the plane flying safely. The brain and computers co-exist and work together in harmony. A special CPU at the brain stem is able to translate the brain's signals into binary code that the computer uses. This is the vital part, other than the brain, that allows such a creature to exist.

Planes can even operate normal computers (laptops, PC, mobile device) via Bluetooth if they request to implant a Bluetooth dongle into their on-board computers. The plane can control the computer with their mind, which is necessary because using a wing to type on a standard keyboard is almost impossible.

Respiratory System:

Biological tissue is very delicate, and requires a very good supply of oxygen. The plane retains its air pressurization/ventilation system to ensure all biological tissue receives the necessary oxygen it requires when flying. The plane is essentially breathing "bleed air" from the engines during flight in a similar fashion to the fish's gills.

However, pressurized air is not required on the ground, plus the engines are turned off on the ground, rendering the pressurization system useless in that situation. When on the ground, the plane can breathe through the mouth normally. The lungs are unique as it can cope with the two different sources of air.

Circulatory System:

This system is very unique. It is able to transport many elements around the body where needed, including vital metals for the plane's mechanical systems. Metals like Aluminium and Titanium are transported to the plane's skeleton and engines. Copper is transported throughout the plane's body for the nervous system (electrical wiring).
The plane is able to heal from wounds and damages. The circulatory system is capable of repairing both biological, and mechanical systems. A punctured skin can be regenerated with aluminium, Electrical wires with Copper, and certain engine components with Titanium.

Skeletal System:

This system is also very unique. The plane's skeleton is both internal and external. The plane's Internal Skeleton is made of aluminium (or other materials depending on the plane). This endoskeleton contains many rings of aluminium, just like a normal inanimate plane. This supports the external skeleton. The exoskeleton is an aluminium skin (depending on the type of plane). This protects the insides from bird strikes, as well as keeping the inside somewhat pressurized. 
Aluminium is well known for being more malleable and softer than many other common metals like steel. The plane's muscles are strong enough to bend the aluminium in almost any direction, giving lots of freedom of movement. This movement however is restricted with the internal skeleton. Similar to a slinky, one side of the plane's body when bent will have the aluminium rings touching each other. The restriction of movement and flexibility is dependent on the opposite side of the body where the rings are furtherest apart. This stretches the external aluminium skin which ultimately restricts any further bending in that direction. Any wear and fatigue in the skin is healed by the circulatory system.

Muscular System:

The muscles are rediculously complex. Each aluminium ring in the endoskeleton contains eight muscles that are joined to the next aluminium ring. Contracting several of these muscles on one side, will bend the body towards that side by pulling the aluminium rings closer together. The muscles on the opposite side is able to cope with the stretching. Since planes contains many aluminium rings in its skeleton, there are thousands of muscles in total along with muscles in the wings and other areas.

More flexible parts of the plane uses tendons attached to muscles found in thicker parts of the body. For example the wings. A wing contains teardrop shaped ribs parallel to the fuselage, side by side along the length of the wing span. Many tendons, run through the edges perpendicular to the rib. These tendons attach to muscles in the fuselage where the wing joins to the body. As a result, this part of the fuselage is not very flexible to have room for these muscles. The tendons pulls the wing towards the side of the tendon being pulled. The wingtips contains only tendons, allowing it to curl up very tightly (you can almost roll it up like a newspaper!). However, the thicker parts of the wings (three quarters of the wing from the fuselage) can't curl up tightly as it does contain its own muscles between each rib; restricting its flexibility to how far the muscles can compress. However, it does add more strength to the wings which allows the plane to carry heavy objects.

The landing gear can be used as legs, and are probably the strongest part of the plane. The muscles it contains are arranged very similar to a human leg, with an internal "knee" inside the hollow tube where the muscles attaches to. These muscles are extremely strong to support the plane's weight. It is one of the strongest biological muscles known to man.

Some mechanical means of movement still exists. All the control surfaces (rudder, elevators, aileron etc) still contains hydraulic or electric systems. Other features like landing bay doors, windscreen wipers, and model specific features like bomb bay doors or droop nosecones also use mechanical means to move it.

Reproductive system:

Basically the same as mammals. Depending on the plane's model and species, they can lay eggs, or give live birth. Their genitals are hidden from external view for protection from the harsh conditions in flight, as well as keeping the plane's aerodynamic shape. It only becomes visible when the plane is not flying and is "excited" by a potential mate.

Other (The eyes):

The plane's eyes are unique for each model or manufacturer of plane and its anatomy can be debated. Here's what I came up with.

For the more biological eyes, the Cornea (transparent layer at the surface of the eye) is actually the glass windshield. Directly behind the glass windshield is a lens that appear to magnify the eyeball to make it look flat. The eyeball is not perfectly spherical and it sits behind the lens. The eyeball itself has its own lens to focus the image. The rest is biological.

For more electronic/mechanical eyes, the glass windshield stays the same, but behind the windshield is an extremely high resolution Liquid Crystal Display that is usually colourless and is completely flat. This LCD does not display images. instead, it is used as the pupil. An LCD works by polarizing light. The light can't pass through if it is polarized both vertically and horizontally. This part of the eye is the large white surface around the iris. The pupil is therefore the LCD polarizing the light in only one direction, allowing light to pass through. Unfortunately that makes polarized 3D glasses appear solid black to the plane when positioned correctly. The size of the pupil is easily adjusted by the number of pixels that are transparent. The pupil's position is easily changed by using different groups of pixels, like a moving image on your computer screen. Behind the LCD layer can be either:
  • Another lens that bends light to a large, stationary biological retina
  • The same lens but bends light to a very large, stationary CMOS sensor (the part in your camera that "sees" the image)
  • A CMOS sensor with its own independent lens mounted on an xy positioning system (like the system used in 3D printers to position the print head) which positions the CMOS sensor to see the object that's not in front of the plane, mimicking how an eyeball is turned to the side to see an object not in front of the animal, except this mechanical eye is flat.
There are many theories about the plane's eyes. You are free to use this science for your plane if you can't make up your own :)

Author's note

Again, If you want, you can use this to explain the science behind how your plane is able to exist and survive. Us living planes don't just put eyes on random objects, we do this with logic! :la:. You can give credit or link to this journal if you want when using it :D
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sharkplane77's avatar
nicely thought out!! :w00t: