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Ornithopters take flight Saturday

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:49 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)

Patent No. 07600712 Issued on Oct. 13, Assigned for Ornithopter

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:45 GMT

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- Thomas B. Higham, is of Hyannis, MA, has developed a Ornithopter .The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. 07600712 on Oct. 13. According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: An new ornithopter is provided with an elongated body, wings

Publication: US Fed News Service, Including US State News

Getting in a flap

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:45 GMT

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? James DeLaurier's ornithopter is a bit of both. Justin Cunningham reports Engineers often take inspiration from nature. They might contemplate a spider's web, the tough shell of a turtle, or the ability to fly like a bird These days it's all too easy to think we have

Publication: Professional Engineering

DREAM FLIGHT NEARS LIFTOFF TEST PILOT TAXIS TOWARD RECORD BOOK WITH FLAPPING WINGS

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:45 GMT

Patricia Jones-Bowman believes she can fly like a dinosaur. In May, Jones-Bowman will climb behind the controls of an "ornithopter," a machine designed to carry a person aloft with flapping wings that mimic a bird, a bat, or a pterodactyl. In its last round of testing, the craft, which looks like a

Publication: The Boston Globe

Patent No. 07600712 Issued on Oct. 13, Assigned for Ornithopter

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:44 GMT

ornithopter

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:44 GMT

Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 or|ni|thop|ter (or'n thp|tr) n. an experimental type of aircraft designed to be propelled by the flapping of the wings Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Publication: Webster's NewWorld Dictionary

RESEARCH ON HUMMINGBIRD FLIGHT WILL LEAD TO NEW TECHNOLOGY

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:05 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

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

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:05 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

Oh, for the wings of an insect.

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:05 GMT

A CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY team is developing flapping wings powered by piezoelectric motors for future military surveillance micro-planes. Piezoelectric-controlled wings could better mimic an insect's complex wing motion - the holy grail of flapping-wing flight researchers. Piezoelectric crystals

Publication: The Engineer

Publication No. WO/2009/088113 Published on July 16, Assigned to Microaerobot for Remote Controlled Ornithopter (South Korean Inventors)

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:05 GMT

GENEVA, July 18 -- Hee Chul Hwang, Il Hyun Paik, and Jae Yeon Kim, all from South Korea, have developed a remote controlled ornithopter for flying forward in the upright position. The patent has been assigned to Microaerobot Co. Ltd., Seoul, South Korea. According to an abstract posted by the World

Publication: US Fed News Service, Including US State News

Publication No. WO/2009/088113 Published on July 16, Assigned to Microaerobot for Remote Controlled Ornithopter (South Korean Inventors)

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:04 GMT

ornithopter

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:04 GMT

ornithopter : see flight .

Publication: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

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

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:14 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

MOTORING: IS IT A BOAT? IS A PLANE? No, it's a car. John Bullock reports on the more eccentric flourishings of the motor industry, from the Ornithopter to the Amphicar

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:14 GMT

IT IS A HUNDRED years since Gottlieb Daimler produced the first automobile capable of taking people long distances by road. Since then, many optimistic entrepreneurs and madcap inventors have attempted to give the motorcar all sorts of extraordinary powers, to allow it to travel on the water, in

Publication: The Independent - London

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

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:14 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