Ornithopter Flight

Piloted flight of the UTIAS Ornithopter by Dr. James DeLaurier. July 8, 2006. Toronto, Ontario
Filmed by Jim Downy.
Video copyright Project Ornithopter Inc. www.ornithopter.ca

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• ornithopter
• utias
• flapper
• delaurier

[QceanWeaver]

...and this is why ornithopters are not the predominant mode of transportation...

[wateriswet69]

look.. up in the sky.. it's a bird...it's a plane...wait a sec....WTF is that thing.

[mutantmutant]

Solidni krap

[RubiksSR71]

pretty hardcore landing

[tailwheelflier]

whats the point, I was kinda relieved to see the ending,,ending like it did. That poor sap in the "machine" doesn't have to do that again. Sux to be down there wishing you were up there,,,until you get up there in a pathetic machine lke that,,,then you suddenly with you were down there!

[jessetj9331]

The Libyans from Back to the Future can be seen at 0:23

[TheFinlandnator]

@ExploringBeyond See this one (its an ornithopter robot):

/watch?v=nnR8fDW3Ilo

[dudenpm]

endo!



[ExploringBeyond]

@robonightmare lol finally, it took 4 weeks but someone finally got it hahahaha

@QceanWeaver because shapeshifting technology isn't perfected yet, it's very brittle and slow. Instead of travelling 1000km/h across the country, you'd be traveling at like 200km/h. Antigrav is the only logical successor to jet propulsion but that doesn't exist yet, or at least not for commercial use. I won't say doesn't exist because of those crazy Tesla and Nazi experiments that may have existed.

[robonightmare]

@ExploringBeyond

Clearly, the pilot in this video was not the Kwisatz Haderach. XD

[Boonze96]

@ScientificExploits

Doesn't it have a rudder? Since you're going for birdy-style, you might wanna slap a big ole tail on that thing

[jigenbakado]

@TonyAirlines Oh fuck that made me laugh so hard