Ornithopter Experiment #1

[pacquiaovsmarquezcom]

Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your channel and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your video posts.

[motivationalspeakPH]

Neat website you all have, I am a webmaster myself & I got a few neat ideas from this one.

[fortbonifaciocondos]

cool :) thanks for sharing this video :)

[itsNOTreallyMYfault]

Do you notice how much the tail vibrates?? If this had contained passengers, I'm sure that they would be on their way to the hospital upon landing. Broken bones, concussions, whiplash and cuts and bruises, not to mention white knuckles.......

[kirill220991]

Dune.

[repawnd]

Excellent!

[GerbilEssences]

I was browsing micro thopter vids and I stumbled on this monster, huge :O

[electricgenerators1]

You made some decent points there. I looked on the internet for the issue and found most individuals will go along with with your channel.

[carmoldu]

Wow, really nice! though gliding might be quite impossible as the wings will stop in weird positions....

[TaxTalkTube]

ziiiing

[GregOrca]

Very nicely done.

Are you using vtail mixing for yaw control?

[Tooornado]

How much power is this thing using?

[SonNickOsUzumaki]

better than dragonfly

[Yousaboogy1]

how dose it achieve forward thrust?

[smorrismlbco]

When the wing moves downward the lift vector is tilted forward and pulls the aircraft in the the thrust direction.

[iznogoud47]

Pour info, aujourd'hui on s'est faire voler des avion sans battre des ailes...:)

[geekfish]

awesome!!

[MisterWillie060]

Yall might have to let evolution do its millions of years of research thing if you're worried about efficiency. Oh wait.. it has. But thats fuckin rad man. I'll stick to real planes or glow engine rc's though, I'd be afraid to crash that.

[yz125Jeremy]

Wow this is really amazing

[finlandSanX]

what the buck is happening at the background?

[herb414]

1st comment out of 39.5k views... ftw...

[u2bzane]

I call him... Flappy, the awesome ornithopter

[106640guy]

hmm i sense metal fatigue on long term :O

[Tass1701]

don't know bout efficiency but this thing is definitly alot cooler than a prop!

[arpnlaei]

That must be a lot of stress on the wings.

[MatchstalkMan]

This is very cool. Ignore all the naysayers. You have achieved something that has been sought for hundreds of years.

A working model precedes a larger version.

As for the naysayers, the Chinese invented rockets over a thousand years ago but it was only recently that rocket science developed to the point where we sent people into space or to the moon. As our understanding grows of materials and for what they can be used, so too will our exploitation of those materials.

[kellkan69]

The point is "fun" When your smart enough to engineer and build something like this, thinking is fun. What is wrong with trying to figure out the secret to full scale ornithopter flight?

and yes it does look cool.

[n1b3luNg]

I wanna know what the point to this is though.

Like seriously.

It's inneficient, and we haven't been able to make any succesful full scale ornithopters. The thing can't even take off on its own power.

Is it simply to look cool?

[hflat1]

@n1b3luNg Ornithopters theoretically are more efficient than fixed wing flying machines at low weights and speeds. They also have the benefit of different moveability and vertical take off/landing. Check out a guy called angrymonk25's micro ornithopters.

[AAErikCO]

Great craft and design, however it's somewhat of an assisted take off, in order to be a true bird-like ornithopter, wouldn't it have to take off via it's own power?

[dandil]

how bout u take off under your own power?

[AAErikCO]

Dude it was just a question. Are you the video poster? Butt out!

[SXAJT]

very good! you cold glide it also!

[googlemeister94]

That is the coolest sound ever!

[Firespectrum122]

neighbors must be creeped out a little XD is it a bird? lol

[Thamnophissirtalis]

It must be cool to see something you made take to the air.

[DerGergl]

amazing. words cant describe that =D

[iamwaycoolerthanshit]

a paper airplane that flies like a bird?

[alizta]

Scary. I didn't think one could experience uncanny valley in birdlike planes.

[mattnsim]

un real! well done. how did you work the mechanism out for that?

[MuToiDMaN]

Beautifully controlled too!

[Galacticmaster]

nice,

but incredibly hard to master, the laws of psyhics must be pulverised before that thing flies

[JflyG]

that... is fuckin cool

[SpeedMetal4635]

upload the tutorial to make this ornithopter, please ;)

[going343]

That's a good design. Looks like you got the wings just right. Even the landing was fine. Thanks for uploading.

[FireFerret2222]

It`s a bird! It's a plane! No wait, it's kinda both.

[BunnyBUNGALO]

awesome.

[panathaninf]

great great great!

[sepulcrack]

excellent !

[DODwebdotorg]

That was just hillarious, but in a great way! I laughed so har at the strange little thing flapping around heh.. have to look into ornithopters, its a truly amazing and "different" approach to the idea of flying, even if it might just be the oldest recorded idea. 5 stars and a favorite for you!

[nickel240]

fly my creation! fly!

[Latias82]

Flies beautifully! I think it's cool!

[guitartec]

Even bird are laughing.

[albann90]

haha those ornithopters looks hilarious! :P

Nice work!

[Lenangreal]

frank herberts: dune :)

[BJblackcat]

Actually, this idea comes from Da Vinci.

[Lenangreal]

i know... but da vinci ornithopter is different and doesnt fly

[peepeevagi]

Miyazaki would be proud, that's for damn sure.

[Enderwiggan1]

Thats amazing

[spencertron88]

not exactly the most graceful bird....

[illegalusername]

Man, that's cool. Did you use an electric engine for the power?

Maybe it could be possible to rig the wings so that the flapping does not rock the whole assembly, maybe you'd get better efficiency that way?

But that would probably be an engineering nightmare and break apart instantly.

[Helldiver450]

Imagine Ornihopters as the 7th Generation fighter of the future war.The ablility to hover,turn in a fixed position,and the ability to dart to an unlikely direction in the blink of an eye.Pretty nice eh?

[MikeTheAnnoying]

like the things from Dune :) Very cool

[ZemplinTemplar]

Yeah. Who wouldn't want one of them... ;-) "Fixed-wing is da past, man ! Ornies rock ! Pimp ya ornies !" :-DDD

[ZemplinTemplar]

It's great, that at least these model ornies work perfectly. I really hope they'll come up with a strong enough motor or wing configuration design to power a real-sized, manned one... The UTIAS Ornithopter is a good recent example, although it's still quite weak.

[rumbles99]

hehehe! its like a cartoon plane thats trying to fly...running out of fuel ^^.....nice vid!

[CoNiLa2]

this is the first plane with moving wings i've ever seen!

how did You develop this?

[dLimboStick]

Frickin AWESOME!

[therockeronner]

you really should patent this and try to deal with hobbico or something. get 2 or 3 bucks for each plane sold and you strike it big

[cookman283]

wacka wacka wacka wacka...... sounds familiar.

[jctoob]

Congrats!! This is without a doubt one of the best movies ever posted on youtube. Seriously. Was that a live bird (visitor)chasing you at about 2:27-2:29?

[Havoc123Heli456]

Scientists have been trying to do that for years.

[Havoc123Heli456]

amazing

[NYCBobby]

This is extremely cool. You should revel in what you have accomplished.

[eyethesuicide]

!!!!!!!

[Tarzbloke]

Awesome flight mate!!

Be proud of yourself.

[Cartuner25]

Haha Nice! You should ask an RC company to make more of these. I would buy one!

[at3buell]

Is that more or less efficient than prop driven flight?

[smorrismlbco]

This one is currently less efficient. Theory says that a flapper could have an advantage over a propeller, but no man-built version has ever demonstrated this yet.

[simusfr]

@smorrismlbco You're wrong. In model flight maybe, but human powered ornithopters fuck human powered props ...

[redkb]

Pretty darn cool!

[Regimenservas]

How does it turn? Flaps? Does one wing flap harder?

[smorrismlbco]

Turning is accomplished through the tail surfaces (ruddervators) and the average dihedral angle built into the mechanism. The wings always flap symmetrically.

Steve

[Regimenservas]

So it's essentially flaps on the tail? Pretty cool machine, did you build it from a kit?

[smorrismlbco]

It's my own design built from scratch. I'm experimenting with large ornithopters that can flap and soar like a bird. Most ornithopters can't glide very well and these models are intended to do both.

[hudgen6]

so thats wut hit me lol

[Roncace]

To think Da Vinci's ideas have come so far

[jcmegabyte]

Just amazing! Sounds like it's power intensive to move the wings but it obviously stays aloft under its own power. Great job! :D

[Malamockq]

Good work. Helicopters had a similar beginning as just toys, until technology improved to the point of where full sized vehicles could be made.

I believe full sized Ornithopters will become a reality as well. They possess many advantages over fixed wing and rotor wing types.

[ZemplinTemplar]

I agree with that. The only disadvantage I see, is probably size. Most ornitopthers wouldn't probably be bigger than a standard helicopter or small bush plane. But they still could transport the same small amount of passengers and cargo, while using more effective manouvering technices.

[enlipo]

ライト兄弟もびっくりだ

[macrumpton]

That is the best flying large ornithopter I have seen. Very Impressive! Is there any more info or pics available?

[catforce]

thats a great job! greetings from germany

[OnlySanePerson]

Awesome...

[HartfordTommy]

Genius work! Thanks for sharing your invention with us.