Most of the "Aerial" part of the "Aerial Creatures & Cognitive Integration" is screened and first tested under this software

Most people use X-Plane for reproducing and flying existing aircrafts and have them "look" as real as possible. The approach of course can be totally reversed and use the fantastic X-Plane Maker to conceive and build any sort of flying object out of wings and profiles assembled in the most creative ever possible way (why can't this be helped? frankly i don't know :-)

So I've spent some time developing weird stuff (i must admit that i've never developed a conventional aircraft in X-Plane) and posted a few of them on the www.x-plane.org under the "Karenfuxia Enterprise Corporation" trademark :-). Go there and download the models for flying them in X-Plane: place a query on "mrk" and you'll have a list of them all

Stuff published on the .org include:

some videos:

and obviously the mythical Creature #1 dropping from stratosphere to pick up your dreams, all wrapped up in Aram Chatchaturian's "Toccata" for piano solo music score:

Let's go technical

On the left, the X-PlaneMaker outcome for a "wing warping" technique... many wings are joined and warped with real profiles and real profile data. X-Plane will compute the interaction of the assembly while flying (under the potential flow approximation) and tell you how's the thing flying (real time). On the right, "The Office"... a frank custom cockpit with what you need for FLIGHT TESTING (not strolling around ;-): Angle of Attack, Indicated Airspeed, Vertical speed, G-Meter, some basic engine gauges, ALL		EVER POSSIBLE TRIM LEVERS, some autopilot to fly constant-something manouvers should you be not a real test pilot :-). Data you see in green on the top portion of the screen is telling you the value of specific parameters related to flight behaviour... like wing lift for each wing section, specific commands deflection, etc..... you cannot ask for anything better than such a thing for knowing what's going on. The software offers much more than this (!!!), just go and check www.x-plane.com

And now some serious stuff for the most finicky engineers out there

here you guys can see this thing SINGING..... i did a routine in Matlab which grabs X-Plane flight data output in real time and plots whatever mathematical and graphical postprocessing you like on the second monitor. You are flying and you're seeing the thing alive in parameter-space

MRK's X-flightstyle

Some video in X-Plane featuring my conventional flightstyle. Unconventional comes with the Masterblaster, unfortunately i cannot disclose those videos for intellectual property reasons