An airplane with no propeller and wings that go flappy-flappy ... a rubber band-powered ornithopter modeled after a pterodactyl. All joking aside, the science and research behind ornithopters ...

Its whirring motors burn about four times the amount of power as a plane-like drone with rigid wings. So-called ornithopters, which have flapping wings, offer the best of both worlds. The one seen ...

Ornithopters, aircraft that fly by flapping their wings like birds, have long been a staple of science fiction, most famously in Dune. But what if one actually existed? In the 1930s, French engineer ...

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