ornithopter (free flight) - read description!

Scratchbuilt, 2grams, Flew well with more rubber and more space. Right up until I broke it with clumsy hands ;) Materials included balsa, limewood, paperclips, beer can, shopping bag, guitar wire, tissue, CA, PVA, bottletop.

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• micro
• rubber
• ornithopter
• bird
• bug
• free
• flight
• scale
• flap
• indoor
• fly
• aviation
• fun
• toy
• recycling
• mini
• pistachio
• peanut

[PuppyZwolle]

You are kiddin!?!?! A scratch build? Amazing design. And no matter what they say you surpassed Da Vinci as his never actually flew. ;^)

[GerbilEssences]

@PuppyZwolle Hehe, as with most of his inventions they were just ideas on paper :)

Thanks!

[primativemodelling]

I had a remote controlled bird..it was loads of fun untill i was out flying it and it went just out of range of my transmitter and it flew away into the distance,i never saw it again..first flight too !

[GerbilEssences]

@primativemodelling Hahahah, not to much trouble for you to make your own, very simple mechanism :O

[BasicModelling]

Birdie num num? :)

[GerbilEssences]

@BasicModelling birdy/batty/bugy whichever you think it most resembles. I snapped the wing stupidly yesterday and I even had better flights on camera - but the blackberry will only record '3GP' files not MPEG so a long and painful conversion process is required for any kind of compilation, ah well.

Going back to my Piper grasshopper build!

[primativemodelling]

@GerbilEssences make a vid showin how, i would watch it : )

[primativemodelling]

@GerbilEssences True,but i have so many things to do at the moment,im snowed under : (