Links to the theme flapping wings
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Robert Korobelnik
presents an interesting spectrum around the technics of flapping wings on his French web site aboutUnusual, Flying radio-controlled objects
(ovirc).
http://ovirc.free.fr - Robert speaks German and sells ornithopter models to Germany too.
http://ovirc.free.fr/ornithopteres_hobbytechnik.php Albert Kempf
has a presentation about successful ornithopters and their theory with hisTruefly
and hisFrench Revolution in Aeronautic
.
http://truefly.chez.com/Ingo Rechenberg
off the specialitybionics
shows motions of water animals related to the flapping wings and describes the implication when trust and drag interlock.
http://www.bionik.tu-berlin.de/institut/skript/B1Fol6.ppt (PPT foil with 2.3 MB)-
Felix Scharstein and Wolfgang Send
Development and construction of testing facilities for the biophysics of animal flight.
http://aniprop.de/drupal/ -
Karl-Heinz Helling
Worldwide firstDouble Flapping Wing Aircraft
is flying.
http://www.mfc-rossendorf.de/fileadmin/Projekte/SchlagfluegelProjekt/SchlagfluegelProjekt.htm -
Nathan Chronister
continues the web site of the earlierOrnithopter Society
(USA, 1983-2002).
http://www.ornithopter.org/ -
Patricia Jones-Bowman
Forum of the Ornithopter Research Group
http://www.ornithopterresearchgroup.com/