I love the noise it makes and how it manages to look like a helicopter and biology inspired. And the wing folded dive to get to the spice harvester is just fantastic.
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I get what you are saying but I think you can also just decide it is magic and in that universe physics works like that. I don’t think it matters whether it is efficient or makes sense, getting lost in that I think is to miss the point of how much incredible power came from selling spice that you could build any kind of military vehicle you wanted to. From the perspective of a normal passenger plane like a Cessna, a fighter jet is an absolutely horrendously wasteful machine dumping massive amounts of energy out for no reason (I.e. when just transporting someone). That is what the ornithopter represents right? That absurdity you mention I think is a purposeful attempt to make you FEEL how much energy is being forced out by this machine and how much an empire must exist to sustain that.
Of course we can do that. Suspension of disbelief, no problem. I still find them odd because they do not seem to follow one physic reality but instead different ones at different times.