{"id":378,"date":"2006-07-10T13:50:47","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T13:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/10\/its-a-birdplane\/"},"modified":"2006-07-10T13:50:47","modified_gmt":"2006-07-10T13:50:47","slug":"its-a-birdplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/10\/its-a-birdplane\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Bird-Plane!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via See You at Enceladus<\/a>, a Canadian team has succeeded in making a flapping-wing airplane<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Yesterday Dr. James DeLaurier, an aeronautical engineer and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Aerospace Studies, fulfilled a lifelong dream, seeing his manned mechanical flapping-wing airplane, or ornithopter, fly ? a dream first imagined by Leonardo da Vinci.<\/p>\n

And with the successful flight DeLaurier has been lucky enough to touch what many describe as the Holy Grail of aeronautical design, achieving a place for himself, his team of volunteers and students in aviation history. <\/p>\n

The flapper, as it’s affectionately known, sustained flight over about a third of a kilometre for 14 seconds at about 10:20 a.m. before being hit by a crosswind and almost flipping over, damaging the nose and front wheel on the runway at Downsview Park.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m not sure what the point is, but a flapping-wing airplane (or ornithopter<\/a>) is pretty cool. There’s probably video of the flight somewhere, but I can’t get to the Toronto group’s web site, so you’ll have to find it yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via See You at Enceladus, a Canadian team has succeeded in making a flapping-wing airplane: Yesterday Dr. James DeLaurier, an aeronautical engineer and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Aerospace Studies, fulfilled a lifelong dream, seeing his manned mechanical flapping-wing airplane, or ornithopter, fly ? a dream first imagined by Leonardo da… Continue reading It’s a Bird-Plane!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}