@Draco Dei
They fly by magic, wings are just an outlet for said magic to manifest.
|| Even assuming literally weightless wings, to lift a pony of 100 kilograms (150-200 average, but let’s say hollow bones or whatever) you’d need an area of at very least 4 square meters for a wing loading of 25 kg/sqm (physical max until a bird cannot fly). That’s a wingspan of 8 meters length by 0.25 meters width. A big albatross is 3.4 by 0.16 for reference.
A falcon/hummingbird would need a way lower wing loading to be agile, thus easily getting carpet-sized wings on a dashie.
Either that or a much thicker atmosphere that increases buoyancy by a LOT.
So long big wings and albatross-styled ones would be the most realistic for a pegasus. ||
Eh, long wings for more realism are fine, but I’d like to see them with more depth from front to back. She is the equivalent of a high performance fighter jet (breaking the long-distance record by the guy who framed her not withstanding), not a glider.
Or to put it in bird terms, she is a peregrin falcon plus humming bird (maneuverability), not an albatross.
They fly by magic, wings are just an outlet for said magic to manifest.
A falcon/hummingbird would need a way lower wing loading to be agile, thus easily getting carpet-sized wings on a dashie.
Either that or a much thicker atmosphere that increases buoyancy by a LOT.
So long big wings and albatross-styled ones would be the most realistic for a pegasus. ||
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