The jellyfish-like ornithopter flies by beating its four delicate wings. (Courtesy: Leif Ristroph) A jellyfish-like flying machine that hovers and stabilizes itself with no feedback control has been ...

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Ornithopters, aircraft that fly by flapping their wings, are a staple at birdman rallies the world over, inevitably resulting in the pilots of such craft plunging headlong into the drink. Now, more ...

Humanity spent centuries trying to fly like birds with flapping wings before finally developing the technologies needed to soar with balloons and then taking to the air with gas-powered, fixed-wing ...

OSHKOSH (WLUK) -- Tuesday was day two of EAA AirVenture. One machine, on the ground, got a lot of attention. The machine, called an ornithopter, has turned heads at AirVenture for decades, for those ...