Would Icarus' wings fly in Earth's atmosphere and moon gravity?

[dedocta]

Could they generate enough lift for 1/11th the weight of a human? Was picturing a giant warehouse and curious if it would work!

 

[DaveC426913]

Could they generate enough lift for 1/11th the weight of a human? Was picturing a giant warehouse and curious if it would work!

Why 1/11th? Lunar gravity is 1/6.

Practically, there's no way to really know. How do you decide how much lift a human could produce without first choosing or designing the wings?

 

[Baluncore]

We have the legend of Icarus flying in the atmosphere.
The problem then was the melting point of the bee's wax used to attach the feathers.

 

[dedocta]

Oh my goodness - 1/6th thanks Dave! Bit of a spaceshot here haha. Thats a good point.

 

[Frabjous]

A wandering albatross weighs around 25 lbs and has a 10 ft wingspan so the dimensions would not be unreasonable.

 

[berkeman]

Could they generate enough lift for 1/116th the weight of a human? Was picturing a giant warehouse and curious if it would work!

Since this thread start is in the technical Physics forms and not SciFi, shouldn't you be asking about how much farther optimized human powered flight could fly?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_human-powered_aircraft