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Animal Flight
Winged Migration
Web site for a stunning documentary film
showing birds in flight.
University of California Museum of
Paleontology Extensive info on vertebrate flight.
Adaptive Airfoils Richard Dryden's neat site
on flapping wings.
Photos of Birds in Flight
From How Birds
Fly by David Goodnow.
James
Marden Origin of insect flight, with
video.
Flight Successful
Ornithopter Projects
TrueFly Albert Kempf's flying toucan. Great
section on how birds fly.
Research of Kevin Jones Describes a successful
micro air vehicle and flapping thruster.
Objets Volants Insolites
Radio-Commandés
Robert Korobelnik's web site featuring Sean
Kinkade's Skybird.
Intercept Technologies
Kinkade's Skybird
adapted for bird control work at airports.
Fred
Ludwig This site in German describes pterosaur gliders and
an RC ornithopter.
Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
French web site describes RC ornithopters in Japan. Great
photos!
Applied Aerodynamics Group
Airfoil data, video
of DeLaurier and Harris ornithopter.
Indoor Models Some
atypical examples from Sweden.
Adaptive Airfoils Richard Dryden's ornithopter
experiments.
Caltech
Tiny electric ornithopter Microbat for
surveillance.
Projects in Development
Entomopter Project Micro air vehicle by Robert
Michelson.
Berkeley Micromechanical Flying Insect
Tiny
ornithopter using piezo actuators.
University of Toronto
Manned ornithopter and
micro air vehicle projects.
Karura Human-powered ornithopter project led
by Kazuho Kawai.
Velko Velkov An inventor's proposal for a
manned ornithopter.
Rotopter Vladimir Savov's concept for an
ornithopter-like aircraft.
Boris
Doukarevitch Proposed sailplane-to-ornithopter
conversion.
Stephan Nitsch An ornithopter based on the
hang glider.
Alan
Stewart A woman-powered ornithopter near
completion.
Nightingale
Patricia Jones-Bowman's project
based on pterosaur flight.
Other Related
Sites
MIT Towing Tank Aquatic propulsion research
at MIT.
Hobie Mirage Kayak powered by flapping fins.
Kenneth Russell's Home Page
Computer-animated
ornithopter
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