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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9728175" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Because:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">These wings are the wrong shape. Notice how hummingbird wings are shaped. They are smooth and continuous on both edges, leading and trailing, so that they can slice through the air either way. The topaz wings are not, and would cause enormous turbulence if you tried to use them that way. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">These wings are not (comparatively) rigid. Hummingbird and insect wings are rigid airfoils. These are membranes. The membranes would curl and twist, and the "fingers" would whip through the air, amplifying the turbulence.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The articulation and musculature is incorrect for this kind of flight.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hummingbird wings still point forward. They're just aerodynamic in more than one direction. These wings are only aerodynamic in one direction...the wrong one.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hummingbirds achieve their VTOL style flight by flapping their wings incredibly fast. This is why they're so small and light relative even to other birds. Now, that doesn't mean a dragon couldn't also do that, but you'd have wings that look like a blur, not obvious flapping. They'd also need an extremely high-energy diet, waaaay more than what hummingbirds need.</li> </ul>I mean...they aren't a good option and never will be. That's the problem. You could dramatically alter their design, so that the backward facing no longer really matters, but you'd have changed them so drastically they wouldn't look anything like what they are now. They'd look more like...well, insect wings or hummingbird wings.</blockquote>

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