ornithopter

You can even buy toy ornithopters I believe.

We have ornithopter which are crude imitations of bird flight.

This type of flying machine is called an ornithopter in general, and many hobbyists have made their own.

This isn’t owl science, nor is it quiet, but it is an ornithopter that uses bird wing biomimicry.

The weight of batteries seems to me to be the biggest issue in making smaller ornithopters.

I thought the same but they apparently mean only a human-powered ornithopter, which I believe is still an open problem.

Most ornithopters that have been flown in the past have used fairly simple wing designs coupled with quite conventional airframe construction.

We've essentially have made an airplane that is part ornithopter, part fixed-wing, part balloon, and part helicopter.

Imagine an ornithopter mimic that seeks out power lines, clamps onto them, and powers itself via inductive pickups in its feet.

Many ornithopters have been constructed that flew or fly successfully; there have even been a few successful full-scale attempts.

There's no fundamental reason that we can't build electrically powered ornithopters.

That video seems weird: since apparently they launched the ornithopter with some machine, how is it even clear that it stayed afloat by using human power after launch?

How do I get updates on the groups project?Wiby seems amazing - the first three surprise me links were a human powered ornithopter, lego maniacs and a guide to knife throwing.

This site claims:"For over thirty years, he has been studying, modelling, building and testing his own ornithopter — an invention that was first conceived some five hundred years ago, but is yet to be implemented successfully.

That is the first ornithopter that I've seen that seems to demonstrate flying capabilities similar to those of birds - something which might be very -other than- only for the curiosity of a plane that flies by flapping its wings.