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ornithopter
Sign in to saveAlso known as flapping-wing aircraft
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- powered aircraft
- Image
- Birdlike plane.jpg
- Significant event
- flight
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- contributor to the creative work or subject
- Alphonse Pénaud
- different from
- entomopter
- present in work
- Magic: The Gathering
- topic's main category
- Category:Ornithopters
- Commons category
- Ornithopters
- uses
- motion
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Early history
- Crewed flight
- Applications for uncrewed ornithopters
- Hobby
- Aerodynamics
- Wing design
- In fiction
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Pteryx Skybird radio-controlled ornithopter
An ornithopter () is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings. Designers sought to imitate the flapping-wing flight of birds, bats, and insects. Though machines may differ in form, they are usually built on the same scale as flying animals. Larger, crewed ornithopters have also been built and some have been successful. Crewed ornithopters are generally powered either by engines or by the pilot.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ornithopter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.