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Unread 29-12-2004, 23:22
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Ornithopter

I recently discovered an old post on slashdot that had details about a full scale ornithopter that was being built. Check it out!

http://www.ornithopter.net/index_e.html

If you're not familiar with an ornithoper, its basically an airplane that flaps its wings to fly. It looks incredibly impressive.
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Re: Ornithopter

im not exaclty sure what "full scale" means, but very interesting. now once they get this working now for the humanpowered one!. da vinci would be proud
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