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Ornithopter up
Fulfilling a dream begun 20 years ago, James DeLaurier's ornithopter, dubbed the "Flapper," achieved sustained flight for a brief 14 seconds in July. An ornithopter is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings. Until now, no motorized, manned ornithopter had ever flown. Dr. DeLaurier, a recently retired professor of aerospace engineering at University of Toronto, began his somewhat quixotic quest in 1986. The plane was assisted in its flight by a model-airplane turbo ...
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DREAM FLIGHT NEARS LIFTOFF TEST PILOT TAXIS TOWARD RECORD BOOK WITH FLAPPING WINGS
The Boston Globe
; Patricia Jones-Bowman believes she can fly like a dinosaur. In May, Jones-Bowman will climb behind the controls of an "ornithopter," a machine designed to carry a person aloft with flapping wings that mimic a bird, a bat, or a pterodactyl. In its last round of testing, the craft, which looks like a
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Ornithopters take flight Saturday
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; PROVO -- "The Da Vinci Code" finally opens in theaters today, but another da Vinci-related drama will be on display Saturday only in Saratoga Springs. More than 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci conducted the first serious study of bird flight and proposed an ornithopter, an aircraft powered by
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MOTORING: IS IT A BOAT? IS A PLANE? No, it's a car. John Bullock reports on the more eccentric flourishings of the motor industry, from the Ornithopter to the Amphicar
The Independent - London
; IT IS A HUNDRED years since Gottlieb Daimler produced the first automobile capable of taking people long distances by road. Since then, many optimistic entrepreneurs and madcap inventors have attempted to give the motorcar all sorts of extraordinary powers, to allow it to travel on the water, in
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What's all the flap about?(IN THE NEWS)(Brief article)
Machine Design
; Aeronautical engineer James DeLaurier's one-seat ornithopter recently flapped its way into the air (with a boost from a small jet engine), climbed about 3 ft above the ground, and sustained flight for 1,200 ft and 14 sec. The craft returned to the runway and tipped over onto its nose, damaging the
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Scientists try to mimic intricacies of nature with robot fly
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ... control that flapping enough to sustain flight remains difficult, if not impossible. "The good news is we know what the wings need to do. The bad news is we don't know how to do it," Fearing said. Consider the fruit fly, Dickinson said. It beats ...
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PEARSON EVENTS TO TAKE WING SATURDAY
The Columbian
; 00-00-0000 Flight fans can buy a ride in a 1929 biplane, watch an ornithopter fly or listen to lectures about the salvage of a B-17 airplane from the Atlantic Ocean off Labrador at the Fifth annual Pearson Field biplane fly-in Saturday. An ornithopter is an aircraft that gets its thrust and most of
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CENTURY OF FLIGHT
Dayton Daily News
; TODAY'S FLIGHT PLAN * Dec. 17 : Traditional wreath laying at the Wright Memorial at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, with a special emphasis on celebrating 100 years of powered flight. MILESTONED OF FLIGHT Edward Frost Ornithopter 1904 Many early flying machines, called ornithopters, were built to
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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The flapping plane; Ready to soar on a birdlike wing (and a prayer).
The Daily Mail (London, England)
; Byline: PAUL KENDALL IT was a challenge beyond even those magnificent men in their flying machines. But British-born Patricia Jones-Bowman is seeking a place in history this summer by piloting a plane with flapping wings. The ornithopter has been built using state-of-the-art materials and the
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CLASS NOTES
Roanoke Times & World News
; HV student excels in science challenge John Cook, a student at Hidden Valley Middle School, was one of 400 semifinalists in the Discovery Channel's Young Scientist Challenge. Cook's science project, "Ornithopter Wing Pitch Comparison," was chosen from more than 75,000 projects nationwide. The
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FlyTech Dragonfly.(UPGRADE)(WowWee)(Brief article)
Popular Mechanics
; It's from the same company that spawned the Roboraptor, but don't assume WowWee's FlyTech Dragonfly is a robot. It has zero autonomous functions--but who cares? With a 16-in. wingspan, this radio-controlled ornithopter flies at up to 18 mph with sheer wing-flapping. It should be available this
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