23 September 2010

flying, idea by leonardo da vinci

HPO Flight from U of T Engineering on Vimeo.



this is hypnotizing and sort of beautiful.

A Canadian university student has done what Leonardo da Vinci had only dreamt of: piloted a human-powered "wing-flapping" plane! Called an ornithopter, and the inspiration for modern day helicopters, the machine was first sketched by Da Vinci way back in 1485 and never actually built.

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