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An ornithopter (from Greek ornis, ornith-'bird' and pteron 'wing') is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings. Designers sought to imitate the flapping-wing flight of birds, bats, and insects. Designers sought to imitate the flapping-wing flight of birds, bats, and insects.
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.
Ornithopter: Alan Stewart: Several unsuccessful human-powered ornithopters built between 1959 and 1979. Stork A Japan: 1976: Junji Ishii / Nihon University: 651 yards. Re-designed (smaller) from the UK Jupiter. [11] Stork B Japan: 1977: Junji Ishii / Nihon University: 2094 m, 4 min 28 s flight. [11] SUMPAC: UK: 1961
The Riout 102T Alérion is an ornithopter built in 1937 designed by René Riout. The Alérion went through a series of ground tests including in the Chalais-Meudon wind tunnel 1938 when the wings suffered a structural failure. Further development was abandoned with the start of World War II.
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The Chyeranovskii BICh-16 (or sometimes Cheranovsky BICh-16) is an experimental Soviet man-powered ornithopter designed and built by Boris Ivanovich Cheranovsky. [1] The BiCH-16 was a wooden construction tailless design with a braced skid landing gear and the wings moved by pedals. [1]
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]
The UTIAS Ornithopter No.1 (registration C-GPTR) is an ornithopter that was built in Canada in the late 1990s. On 8 July 2006, it took off under its own power, assisted by a turbine jet engine, making a flight of around 300 metres that lasted 14 seconds, after which it crashed.