Ornithopter
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An ornithopter is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings. Designers sought to imitate the flapping-wing flight of birds, bats, and insects. The term covers a wide range of possible designs. Orni
Leonardo da Vinci's ornithopter design
E.P. Frost's 1902 ornithopter
Otto Lilienthal on August 16, 1894, with his kleiner Schlagflügelapparat
Schmid 1942 Ornithopter
UTIAS Snowbird
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The Snowbird is a human-powered ornithopter that was built as a project of the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies. Snowbird was the first human-powered ornithopter to fly straight a
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…flight, but the flapping wings did most of the work. On August 2, 2010, Todd Reichert of the same institution piloted a human-powered ornithopter named Snowbird. The 32-metre (105 ft) wingspan, 42-kilogram (93 lb) aircraft was constructed from carbon fibre, balsa, and foam. The pilot sat in a small cockpit…
The UTIAS Snowbird human-powered ornithopter on display at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.