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Could Leonardo Da Vinci’s Human-Powered Ornithopter have Flown?
As his drawings illustrate, Da Vinci had more than one Ornithopter concept in mind for manned flight. Not only was he prescient in foreseeing human-carrying flying machines, his speculations on ornithopters potentially flying solely under human power were eventually proven correct. Although a modest demonstration, t The Snowbird Human-Powered Ornithopter was designed and constructed by a team of students from the University of Toronto. On August 2nd 2010 it sustained both altitude and airspeed for...
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