ornithoptersnews

Engineer continues quest for flapping wing.(Engineer's profile)(Column)

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:31 GMT

Cannon Falls, MN--In his daydreams, Jim Theis sees small personal aircraft that can dip, turn, and hover like dragonflies. He envisions teen-agers soaring across town, dropping in on friends. And he foresees the day when soldiers will fly bird-like aircraft across enemy lines, swooping in on their

Publication: Design News

The Arkansas Game & Fish Commission proposed last week at the Mississippi Flyway Council meeting in Tunica, Miss., a flyway-wide ban on all spinning and flapping wing decoys.(Brief Article)

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:31 GMT

The Arkansas Game & Fish Commission proposed last week at the Mississippi Flyway Council meeting in Tunica, Miss., a flyway-wide ban on all spinning and flapping wing decoys. The ban would apply to all motorized, wind-powered or mechanical spinning and flapping wing decoys. Since 2004, Arkansas

Publication: Arkansas Business

Canadian Engineer Tests Flapping-Wing Plane

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:31 GMT

A Canadian engineer is testing a flapping-wing plane in the hope that the bird-like ornithopter will take its historic flight this summer. This is the world's first practice to realize a dream as ancient as that of Icarus, the Ottawa Citizen daily reported Monday. The aircraft, spanning 12 meters

Publication: Xinhua News Agency

French seek help on flapping-wing drone

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:31 GMT

FRENCH engineers are building a microdrone with flapping wings as a technology demonstrator. The proof-of-concept work could lead to operational use of such devices by the armed forces by 2015. A three-year project at the Onera aerospace laboratory has resulted in the construction of a thorax and

Publication: Professional Engineering

Researchers Ape Nature With Flapping-Wing Aircraft; Versatile Ornithopters Hold Promise for Space or Military Missions

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:31 GMT

"Mentor" looked like a cross between a dragonfly and a Chinese lantern as it soared toward the ceiling of a Toronto research center, its wings flapping furiously. Below, a bespectacled young man gingerly worked the joystick on a remote control. Mentor started hovering in place, and suddenly the

Publication: The Washington Post

Tiny aircraft could be the next big idea in aviation Dutch experts will demonstrate flapping-wing micro air vehicles next month at Wright State.

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:31 GMT

FAIRBORN -- Could Dayton make its next aviation mark with miniature aircraft whose wings flap? The chairman of the Wright State University Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering is intrigued by the idea. George Huang has invited a team of Dutch experts to Wright State next month to

Publication: Dayton Daily News

It's a bird! It's a spy plane!

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:31 GMT

Talk about odd birds. At some of America's most prestigious research organizations, teams of expert engineers are hard at work building small avian robots, machines that can fly through the air in nature's time- honored manner: by flapping their wings. It may not seem so, but this is a serious

Publication: Chicago Sun-Times

RESEARCH ON HUMMINGBIRD FLIGHT WILL LEAD TO NEW TECHNOLOGY

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:31 GMT

New Mexico State University issued the following news release: Nature serves as an inspiration for many technologies, and researchers in the College of Engineering at New Mexico State University are taking their inspiration for a micro air vehicle (MAV) design from the hummingbird. The researchers

Publication: US Fed News Service, Including US State News

Study results from M.F. Platzer and colleagues in the area of aerospace engineering published.

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:31 GMT

According to recent research from the United States, "It is the objective of this paper to review recent developments in the understanding and prediction of flapping-wing aerodynamics. To this end, several flapping-wing configurations are considered." "First, the problem of single flapping wings is

Publication: Defense & Aerospace Week

New aerospace engineering findings from H. Nagai and co-authors described.

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:31 GMT

According to recent research from Kitakyushu, Japan, "Experimental and numerical studies are conducted on the aerodynamic characteristics of a flapping wing of an insect in forward flight. Unsteady aerodynamic forces and flow patterns are measured using a dynamically scaled mechanical model in a

Publication: Defense & Aerospace Week

Ornithopters take flight Saturday

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:25 GMT

PROVO -- "The Da Vinci Code" finally opens in theaters today, but another da Vinci-related drama will be on display Saturday only in Saratoga Springs. More than 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci conducted the first serious study of bird flight and proposed an ornithopter, an aircraft powered by

Publication: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)

Dr Ornithopter. (Profile: James De Laurier).

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:25 GMT

As the US military recognises the advantages of flapping-wing technology, the men who has achieved in 30 years what Leonardo da Vinci failed to do in a lifetime talks to LEONARDO DA VINCI could only dream of flight using mechanical flapping wings, but James De Laurier has spent much of his

Publication: The Engineer

Teen biz flies high. (Physical News).(Sean Frawley and Dan Getz create Ornithopter Technologies)

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:25 GMT

High school pals Sean Frawley and Dan Getz share a passion for flying machines. But when they wanted to craft a toy ornithopter, a contraption that flies by flapping its wings, they found few build-it-yourself kits available. Far from discouraged, the Warwick Valley High students in Warwick, N.Y.,

Publication: Science World

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's an ornithopter designed by Leonardo da Vinci.(General News)

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:25 GMT

Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard EVERGREEN AVIATION MUSEUM McMINNVILLE - Now here's a "da Vinci Code" that someone from Oregon cracked. And, in theory, it can fly. Like a bat. Ken Spence of Bend researched 500-year-old drawings of Leonardo da Vinci's "ornithopter," a full-scale, birdlike

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

The Breadboard Ornithopter - New York Times

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:25 GMT

To the Editor: "A Step Closer to Flight as Free as a Bird's" (Technology, May 31) transported me back to somewhere around 1939 -- to Hope Avenue in Passaic, N.J., where Andy Periwiznik and Steve Kuhta were friends of mine, aviation was in its infancy, and we were always throwing balsa gliders

Publication: The New York Times