Reinvention of Engineering Marvels from Nature

Many modern machines were invented with inspiration from nature, or reinvented through reverse engineering based on what was observed in nature. 

One of the widely cited reverse engineering examples in the military is the Soviet Tupolve Tu-4 (Bull) bomber. During World War n, three battle-damaged 

Source National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Boeing B-29 feet sheets, http //www.national-museum.af.mil/fectsheets/fectsheetasp fsID=2527 Wikipedia, Tupolev Tu-4, http // en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev Tu-4 (accessed September 25,2009). 

Source Swinhart, E., The Mikoyan-Murevich MiG-15, Aviation History Qn-Une Museum, http / / www.aviation-history.com/mikoyan/migl5.html, and North American F-86 Sabre Aviation History On-Une Museum, http //www.aviation-history.com/north-ameri-can/f86.html (accessed September 25,2009). 

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