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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