What is ornithopter?

Ornithopter is a machine that flies like a bird, by waving wings. Most ORIThopters are about the size of small birds. There were attempts at larger models transmitting a person, but so far without proven success. Ornithopters the size of the aircraft accelerated to make a take -off speed, but the complete take -off is never successful. Ornithopter was popularized in the book series Frank Herbert Dune , as in the recent film Sky Captain and World of Tomorrow .

Bird-Sized Model Ornithopters are cheap and used by hosts around the world. Ornithopter was first designed by Leonardo da Vinci and drawn in his notebooks in more detail. Instead of feathers, he used a membrane and shows that Da Vinci had some basic understanding of the flight mechanism. It was supposed to be driven by man, but he did not create enough elevator to take off. Ornithopter da Vinci has probably never been built.JECT led by the University of Toronto, called Project Ornithopter. Ornithopter resembles the plane of the propeller butHe lacks the propeller and instead has a wave of wings. As mentioned earlier, it was accelerated at the speed of take -off, but has not yet tried full years.

The first ornithopter was perhaps built in Germany by Karl Friederich Meerwein in 1781 as evidence of a concept for a heavier than air flight. It is said that he flew, but probably slipped after starting from a high place. When the aerodynamic principles of the flight mathematically clarified in 1799 by George Cayley, it was obvious that the gliders were more comfortable than ornithopters, so much research in this direction was abandoned.

Some interesting projects used chemically driven artificial muscles to flap the wings of small ornithopters. One day, robots such as Tytod like imitation birds for supervision could be used. The advantage of chemically driven ornithopters is that it does not necessarily use burning for energy, thus saving the sky from contamination.