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Another Ornithopter Takes Off

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-way-to-not-travel dept.

mnmn writes "Ornithopters have been around for a while, but a professor at the Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies has made progress with his. It flew for 14 seconds and covered a third of a kilometer. However it landed with a bit of a crash. Interestingly it uses a glow jet turbine from RC aircraft."

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  1. Re:Wait... what?! by east+coast · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm sure there was a whole host of 12 year old homosexuals who thought the same exact thing you did.

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  2. mod dowN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    nOpenBSD, as the