Flight, if you're in good shape
Sep. 24th, 2010 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chrishansenhomeLeonardo daVinci sketched out plans for an ornithopter—a flying machine which "flapped its wings". Such a machine was thought to be impractical.
Until now.
Scientists at the University of Toronto (hi,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
trawnapanda) have constructed and flown such a machine 145 meters (around 476 feet). The video is embedded in this Register article. I must say, that the video of the actual flight is one of the most beautiful sights one can see—an airplane gently flapping its wings like a seagull. Go and see it. And remember: when a scientist says that something is impossible, it may be impossible today, but it rarely stays impossible forever.
Until now.
Scientists at the University of Toronto (hi,
trawnapanda) have constructed and flown such a machine 145 meters (around 476 feet). The video is embedded in this Register article. I must say, that the video of the actual flight is one of the most beautiful sights one can see—an airplane gently flapping its wings like a seagull. Go and see it. And remember: when a scientist says that something is impossible, it may be impossible today, but it rarely stays impossible forever.
