Man Flies With Custom-Built Bird Wings

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Man Flies With Custom-Built Bird Wings

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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/human-bird-wings/

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Smeets flew like an albatross, the bird that inspired his winged-man invention, on March 18 at a park in The Hague.

Smeets got the idea from sketches of a futuristic flying bicycle drawn by his grandfather, who spent much of his life designing the contraption but never actually built it.

When Smeets began studying engineering at Coventry University in England, he realized the physics of a flying bicycle just didn’t pan out. Instead, he drew inspiration from Leonardo da Vinci’s wing drawings to build his flying machine. Along with neuromechanics expert Bert Otten, Smeets brought his design into reality

The design is based on mechanics used in robotic prosthetics. The idea is to give his muscles extra strength so they can carry his body weight during the flight.
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Do you know how many dreams that guy just lived?
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It would be fascinating and a wonderful tribute to

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if it proves to be real.

The first solely human power ornithopter:

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thanks azari... this is very cool - a lifetime of being told humans cant fly cause we dont have the overdeveloped keel bone chest is proven wrong :)
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Wow, that is so cool
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Did anybody else kind of giggle and just tear up a bit when he lifted off?
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oh well, back to the ultralight.
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Sparky wrote:.

Alas...

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guessed it

video does not show a lot of effort .. needed much energetic struggle for that

but, was a nice hoax

wonder if it is because humans don't have the overdeveloped keel bone chest


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Some hoaxes are depressing.
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Parodite wrote:Some hoaxes are depressing.

Agreed. I was disproportionally happy watching this- such a thing really is a dream in the strictest sense. A bit sad to think it is closed to us. Still.

When I achieve full genetic malleability, though, I'm going to grow that keel bone...
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Demon of Undoing wrote:
Parodite wrote:Some hoaxes are depressing.
Agreed. I was disproportionally happy watching this- such a thing really is a dream in the strictest sense. A bit sad to think it is closed to us. Still.

When I achieve full genetic malleability, though, I'm going to grow that keel bone...
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Demon of Undoing wrote:
Parodite wrote:Some hoaxes are depressing.

Agreed. I was disproportionally happy watching this- such a thing really is a dream in the strictest sense. A bit sad to think it is closed to us. Still.
Reminded me of how I felt waking up from happy dreams where I was flying.. such a bummer.
When I achieve full genetic malleability, though, I'm going to grow that keel bone...
Haha :D
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it is said, dream one flying like a bird, is very common

wonder why ?


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