Sentences with word «ornithopter»

In recent years, though, scientists have started finding ways to mimic the mechanics of bird flight through various robotic ornithopters, aircraft that fly with flapping wings.

Now one aeronaut is looking to the ancient leathery - winged pterosaur in hopes of becoming the pilot of the world's first successful ornithopter.

At 10 inches long, with a foot - wide wingspan, the Vamp is the smallest radio - controlled ornithopter on the market.

The latest RC is the i - Fly Vamp ornithopter from Interactive Toy Concepts.

It's a sound approach, says Rick Ruijsink at the Technical University of Delft, in the Netherlands, whose group hold the record for the smallest ornithopter.

In the space, Shonibare has two of his «Alien Flying Machines» which bear a striking resemblance to the fantastical 15th century drawings of ornithopters by Leonardo da Vinci.

Festo does not plan any further generations of the SmartBird, and ornithopters in general still have a long way to go — especially in being able to land like a bird — before they are ready for the runway.

An ornithopter is a craft that flies through the air by flapping its wings, which are as wide as a Boeing 737's.

Another human - powered crazy transportation method that made news recently was the first official flight of a manned, and man - powered, ornithopter.

The team who designed and built the ornithopter had a special goal in mind: to show that even air travel could be green.

But so far, no one has succeeded in building an ornithopter — a flapping flying machine — that will take off and stay up unaided.

Lean and muscular, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen hunched forward next to the ornithopter pilot.

Todd Reichert, an engineering student at the University of Toronto, made history by sustaining flight in his ornithopter — named Snowbird — for 19.3 seconds and covering 475.72 feet.

Called an ornithopter, and the inspiration for modern day helicopters, the machine was first sketched

The flight, witnessed by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI), is the first officially confirmed flight in an ornithopter.