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  2. Ornithopter - Wikipedia

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    More recent vehicles, such as the human-powered ornithopters of Lippisch (1929) and Emiel Hartman (1959), were capable powered gliders but required a towing vehicle in order to take off and may not have been capable of generating sufficient lift for sustained flight. Hartman's ornithopter lacked the theoretical background of others based on the ...

  3. UTIAS Snowbird - Wikipedia

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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 (UTIAS). Snowbird was the first human-powered ornithopter to fly straight and level. [1] [2]

  4. DelFly - Wikipedia

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    The DelFly project started in 2005 as a Design Synthesis Exercise for a group of Bachelor of Science students at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of the TU Delft.The flapping wing design was mentored by Wageningen University, [3] the remote control and micro camera integration by Ruijsink Dynamic Engineering, and the real-time image processing by the TU Delft. [14]

  5. Micro air vehicle - Wikipedia

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    He says fly-size ornithopters should be possible, provided the tail is well designed. Rick Ruijsink of TU Delft cites battery weight as the biggest problem; the lithium-ion battery in the DelFly micro, at one gram, constitutes a third of the weight. Luckily, developments in this area are still going very fast, due to the demand in various other ...

  6. Aeronautics - Wikipedia

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    He also identified and described the importance of dihedral, diagonal bracing and drag reduction, and contributed to the understanding and design of ornithopters and parachutes. [2] Another significant invention was the tension-spoked wheel, which he devised in order to create a light, strong wheel for aircraft undercarriage.

  7. Why United Airlines’ CEO makes as few decisions as possible

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    Kirby prefers a participatory style of decision-making even when he must make the final choice. He gathers about 15 employees and, starting with the most junior, seeks each one's advice. He's ...

  8. What an Orca’s 1,000-Mile Swim Really Means - AOL

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    In the case of orcas like Tahlequah, this includes addressing environmental issues such as water pollution, damming rivers, and overfishing. And she might be the best encouragement for advocacy yet.

  9. Jonathan Edward Caldwell - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of the ornithopter design from the patent application. The wedge-shaped objects on the wings (#20) consist of the fabric "valves" (#21), which would blow closed against the supports (#20) on the downstroke. Caldwell then turned to an even more bizarre aircraft design, an ornithopter.