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"First Ever" Human-Powered Ornithopter Flight

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EHM-1749 Hector:
http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/exclusivevids/HumanPoweredOrnithopterFlight_203330-1.html

EHM-2155 Mariano:
Hahah that's amazing yet ridiculously complicated and impractical. I don't think we'll ever have reliable "bird-like" planes, because it all depends on power and lightness on birds... hollow bones, small bodies, powerful muscles. I don't think we have the muscle power and stamina needed to sustain a machine like that in motion for long.

EHM-2585 Dan:
I agree, you probably would not go very far in it, but it does look cool with those wings flapping!

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