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View Resource WashingtonPost.com: Researchers Ape Nature With Flapping-Wing Aircraft

A Washington Post article from September 1, 2003 looks back at a significant moment in aviation when, in spring 2002, researchers successfully demonstrated an ornithopter capable of hovering. An ornithopter is a kind of aircraft that mimics flying creatures by using flapping wings instead of conventional propulsion systems. Many potential applications exist for future ornithopters, including Mars...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/09/01/r...