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Applying bioengineering and biomimetics to flight
The most promising of the flying machines was what is called an ornithopter. where anatomy helped as well, because he looked at the actual mechanism of flie. And could any of them ever have worked? The answer is yes, in a way, but not quite as he imagined. These flapping machines, which involve the legs and even unbending and bending, he comes to the conclusion these will not work. But if you look at where he in of what we would call a hand glider, he has shapes of wings which produce enormous lift. We had to use ropes to stop your going off into the sea.