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From: heinz@focus-systems.on.ca (Heinz Wolter)
Subject: Re: Info about Ornithopters please.
Message-ID: <CzA7IL.7Cq@focus-systems.on.ca>
Organization: Focus Automation Systems Inc.
References: <Cz29JH.KC@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> <1994Nov12.224419.24680@jarvis.cs.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 23:49:32 GMT
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In article <1994Nov12.224419.24680@jarvis.cs.toronto.edu> rbh@wolverine.utias.utoronto.ca (Roger Barry Hertz) writes:
>In article <Cz29JH.KC@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>,
>Darren <djwwu@sail.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>>G'day!
>>
>>I'd like to find out more about Ornithopters and what research
>>has been done on building them.  Are there any books that anyone
>>can recommend?
>
>Well its a good thing your in Canada asking this, because your
>right next door to someone who developed the first motor
>powered ornithopter (flapping wing aircraft).
>
>You should drop by, he'd be glad to show you a video, the plane and
>other sorts of stuff.  (The plane looks very life-like in the video,
>truly weird.  The wings flex while it flies---looks like a big

Did anyone see the bird that the Rutan brothers built ? Ie the same
ones that designed the VaryEZ canard-wankel kit plane ? It looked like
a teradactyl and flapped it wings as well..

heinz

