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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. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Pilot decision making - Wikipedia

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    The pilot decision-making process is an effective five-step management skill that a pilot should conduct to maximize success chance when facing an unexpected or critical event. This cyclic model allows the pilot to make a critical decision and follow up with a series of events to produce the best possible resolution.

  6. History of aviation - Wikipedia

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    The Wrights appear to be the first to make serious studied attempts to simultaneously solve the power and control problems. Both problems proved difficult, but they never lost interest. They solved the control problem by inventing wing warping for roll control, combined with simultaneous yaw control with a steerable rear rudder .

  7. John Joseph Montgomery - Wikipedia

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    John Joseph Montgomery (February 15, 1858 – October 31, 1911) was an American inventor, physicist, engineer, and professor at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, who is best known for his invention of controlled heavier-than-air flying machines.

  8. Google DeepMind AI software makes a breakthrough in solving ...

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    In this case, the deep learning component of AlphaGeometry develops an intuition about what approach might best help solve the geometry problem and this "intuition" guides the symbolic AI component.

  9. Edward Purkis Frost - Wikipedia

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    He built ornithopters, and became president of the Aeronautical Society. E.P. Frost lived at West Wratting Hall in Cambridgeshire and became a Justice of the Peace. [1] Frost began studying flight in 1868 and built a large steam-powered flying machine with both fixed and flapping wings from 1870 to 1877. Frost had intended to have a 20-25 hp ...