Animal Flight

Bird Flight Web Site
This is our favorite web site about all animals that fly!

Animal Planet - Eagle Cam
Mini TV cameras on a real eagle in flight!

Ornithology Lecture Notes
Info on bird flight from Gary Ritchison, Eastern Kentucky University.

Winged Migration
Web site for a stunning documentary film showing birds in flight.

University of California Museum of Paleontology
Extensive info on vertebrate flight.

Adaptive Airfoils
Richard Dryden's neat site on flapping wings.

Photos of Birds in Flight
From How Birds Fly by David Goodnow.

James Marden
Origin of insect flight, with video.

Ornithopters

Educational Multimedia Research Center
Watch online this Indian TV program, a great introduction to ornithopters.

How Ornithopters Fly
Excellent info about the projects of Horst Räbiger.

DelFly Radio Controlled Ornithopter
Developed by the micro air vehicle team at Delft University of Technology.

Trivrat
Sanjay Jogi's human powered ornithopter concept.

Otto Lilienthal Museum
Learn about aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal.

TrueFly
Albert Kempf's flying toucan. Great section on how birds fly.

Research of Kevin Jones
Describes a successful micro air vehicle and flapping thruster.

Objets Volants Insolites Radio-Commandés
Robert Korobelnik's web site featuring Sean Kinkade's Skybird.

CIA Museum Tour
Look for the dragonfly and fish developed for spying.

Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
French web site describes RC ornithopters in Japan. Great photos!

Adaptive Airfoils
Richard Dryden's ornithopter experiments.

Entomopter Project
Micro air vehicle by Robert Michelson.

University of Toronto
Manned ornithopter project.

Karura
Human-powered ornithopter project led by Kazuho Kawai.

Velko Velkov
An inventor's proposal for a manned ornithopter.

Boris Doukarevitch
Proposed sailplane-to-ornithopter conversion.

Alan Stewart
Man-powered flight project.

Other Bio-Mimetic Locomotion

Hobie Mirage
Kayak powered by flapping fins.

Kevin Clague's Lego Page
Walking machines made of Lego.