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  2. Ornithopter - Wikipedia

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    Pteryx Skybird radio-controlled ornithopter. 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. Though machines may differ in form, they are usually built on the same scale as flying animals.

  3. Flapping counter-torque - Wikipedia

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    The researchers recorded the flight of hummingbirds and hawkmoths using 1,000 frame-per-second video cameras. The research expanded to four other kinds of flying insects, two species of birds and a bat which all use about the same number of wing beats to complete a turn in mid-flight. [ 2 ]

  4. UTIAS Snowbird - Wikipedia

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    Analysis of the flight afterward indicated that 15-20 power strokes is the limit of endurance for the pilot. [14] The validity of the record claim has been disputed due to prior claims and, apparent in Reichert's flight data, a downward trend in total energy and airspeed during the 19.3 second interval claimed as a sustained flight. [16]

  5. Early flying machines - Wikipedia

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    His flight was the first made by a powered heavier-than-air machine to be verified by the Aéro-Club de France, and won the Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize for the first officially observed flight of more than 25 metres (82 ft). It later set the first world record recognized by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale by flying 220 metres (720 ft ...

  6. Nuclear museum pays homage to da Vinci - AOL

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    His ornithopter — showcased in the exhibition — was an attempt to imitate the way birds fly by allowing a human to use a series of ropes, pulleys, wooden wings and wing joints to fly a glider ...

  7. Festo SmartBird - Wikipedia

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    It is an ornithopter modeled on the herring gull. [1] It has a mass of 450 grams and a wingspan of 1.96 meters. [2] In April 2011 the SmartBird was unveiled at the Hanover Fair. The natural wingbeat of a bird was emulated by using bionics technology to decipher bird flight.

  8. 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]

  9. List of human-powered aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Piloted by Yuta Watanabe; Flight distance record in JIBR in 2017 - 2019 and 2019 - 2023. [3] [4] Bionic Bat: USA: 1984: Paul MacCready Jr. Two Kremer speed challenges won, doing 1500 m in 163.28 seconds on 18 July 1984 and 143.08 seconds on 2 December 1984. Bird Ornithopter: UK: Ornithopter: Bryn Bird: Two prototypes built, but no record of any ...