This is no ordinary plane. It flies... by flapping its wings, in a way similar to how birds fly !
The first successful flight was on 9th July. News is on the Toronto Star. After the successful flight of 14 sec and 1/3 mile , inventor James DeLaurier had this to say to his pilot :
`You did it man. You've made an old professor really happy. You've made aviation history'More info about what an Ornithopter is can be found in the Wikipedia entry. Simply put "An ornithopter is a machine that flies like a bird, by flapping its wings"
- Ornithopter developer James DeLaurieto test pilot Jack Sanderson
Amazing !
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