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- From: trljim@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (JIM SONNENMEIER)
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- Subject: Re: Flapping Wings
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- Date: 12 Dec 92 01:10:00 GMT
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- In article <Bz4BMC.7u1@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, selig@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (selig michael) writes...
- >
- >I know a little about the onithopter efforts taking place at the
- >University of Toronto. Jim DeLaurier and Jerry Harris spent 20 years
- >on the design of the world's first RC powered ornithopter. Up until
- >a year ago there only claim to fame was that they had a ornithpter
- >that flew but did not sustain flight, i.e. climb. (MaCready's pterodactyl
- >did this too.) I was contacted by Jim DeLaurier to design them a new
- >airfoil specifically for the task of flapping. With the new airfoil, this
- >improved matters just enough so that it could climb. Coverage of the
- >flight made it on CNN just a little over a year ago.
- >
- >
- >Michael Selig
-
- I forgot that you had told me that! .. I'm sorry Michael
- I still owe you email ... hope you have a good holiday.
-
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- happy holidays!
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