Article: ornithopter

Article: Ornithopters take flight Saturday
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  May 19, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... while an ornithopter potentially ... said. "An ornithopter could fly through ... Bowman said, "ornithopters can stop and ... seen videos of ornithopters that run out ... Constructing an ornithopter presents excellent ...

Article: Dr Ornithopter. (Profile: James De Laurier).
The Engineer;  May 30, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Bird-like aircraft, known as ornithopters, proved a dead-end for many ... has built a person-carrying ornithopter that 'hopped' into the record ... With only rough ideas about how ornithopters could work, De Laurier and Harris ...

Article: Teen biz flies high. (Physical News).(Sean Frawley and Dan Getz ...
Science World;  September 27, 2002 ;     688 words ... ... But when they wanted to craft a toy ornithopter, a contraption that flies by flapping ... opportunity: They invented their own ornithopter kit--based on a design by a 19th ... inventor--and launched the online Ornithopter Technologies. "I've always been ...

Article: Patent No. 07600712 Issued on Oct. 13, Assigned for ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 15, 2009 ;     404 words ... ... is of Hyannis, MA, has developed a Ornithopter .The inventor was issued U.S. Patent ... Patent & Trademark Office: An new ornithopter is provided with an elongated body ... and the mass are rotated to drive the ornithopter. In another embodiment, a mass is ...

Article: Publication No. WO/2009/088113 Published on July 16, Assigned to ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 18, 2009 ;     402 words ... ... have developed a remote controlled ornithopter for flying forward in the upright position ... invention relates to a "remote-controlled ornithopter capable of flying forward in the upright ... moments applied to a fuselage of the ornithopter. The ornithopter includes the fuselage ...

Article: It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's an ornithopter ...
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR);  August 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... drawings of Leonardo da Vinci's "ornithopter," a full-scale, birdlike flying ... others. The story behind da Vinci's ornithopter is this: It is believed to be the most ... supposedly designed the wings of the ornithopter after studying bird wings, and the ...

Article: Researchers Ape Nature With Flapping-Wing Aircraft; Versatile ...
The Washington Post;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... milestone in the age- old quest to build ornithopters -- aircraft propelled by flapping ... Mentor is the world's first hovering ornithopter. Mentor came into being in response ... minutes -- a record for small-scale ornithopters. DARPA, pleased with the results ...