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...
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Human-powered aircraft (redirect from Human-powered ornithopter)
ultimately turns a propeller, or in the case of earlier prototypes, an ornithopter mechanism. Often, a hybrid system is used; where during a certain amount...
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UTIAS Snowbird (redirect from Snowbird (ornithopter))
The Snowbird is a human-powered ornithopter that was built as a project of the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS). Snowbird...
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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...
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On October 24, 2023, The LEGO Group announced a Lego set based on the ornithopter that appears in the 2021 film Dune. The set is aimed at an 18+ audience...
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List of technology in the Dune universe (redirect from Ornithopter (Dune))
ornithopter (from Greek roots ornithos- "bird" and pteron "wing") is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings. In the Dune universe, ornithopters...
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Jonathan Edward Caldwell (section Ornithopter)
support. Caldwell then turned to an even more bizarre aircraft design, an ornithopter. The wings were equipped with flexible fabric valves which were supposed...
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will see Freak again. Max then takes Freak's ornithopter and winds it up, making it fly. As the ornithopter flies off, a narration by Max is heard: And...
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Riout 102T Alérion (category Ornithopters)
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...
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of operation for the lighter-than-air balloon and the flapping-wing ornithopter, which he envisaged would be constructed in the future. The lifting medium...
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