Could Namor’s Ankle Wings From 'Black Panther 2' Really Work?

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Could Namor’s Ankle Wings From 'Black Panther 2' Really Work?
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Other superheroes float, rocket, or jump their way around the Marvel Cinematic Universe—but this new flying method needs a physics analysis.

Most human-sized beings couldn’t float without a blimp, of course. Humans have a density very close to 1,000 kg/m. In order to float, you would need to have a mass of just 75 grams, or 0.17 pounds. You see the problem. But for Vision, it’s no problem at all.Some MCU characters don’t technically fly, but they do something like it. Let’s take the Incredible Hulk.

If you want to say that he flies because of the magic powers of Mjölnir, that's cool and I totally accept that theory. But I think what he’s doing is pretty similar to the Hulk’s jump. In both cases, the hero uses their muscles to increase the speed of some massive object to get them off the ground. In Thor’s case, the object is the hammer. In the Hulk’s case, it’s his own mass that gets accelerated for the jump.Now let's get back to Namor and his tiny ankle wings—two per ankle.

But Namor’s got two problems with his wings. First, they are much too small for his human-sized mass. To get a human off the ground requires giant wings, something more likeIt also requires a colossal amount of energy. My new favorite unit of energy for superheroes is measuring how much food—specifically peanut butter and jelly sandwiches—they’d have to eat to perform their feats of strength. For Namor, I'm going to estimate how long he can fly using the energy from eating one PBJ.

and I can use the same basic idea here. Namor’s tiny wings need to push air down in order to create an upward lift force from the flapping. The speed of this downward thrust depends on Namor’s mass and the approximate surface area of the wings.

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