ornithopter

How To Use ornithopter In A Sentence

• He developed prototypes for mass-produceable goods, and worked on the quixotic Letatlin, a design for an ornithopter.
• The ornithopter was the original one they had rebuilt years ago. The Brothers' War
• -- The term orthopter, or ornithopter, meaning bird wing, is applied to such flying machines as depend on wing motion to support them in the air. Aeroplanes
• In collaboration with SRI International in Menlo Park, California, they are developing ornithopters - aircraft that get all of their thrust and most of their lift from flapping wings.
•     The ornithopter was the original one they had rebuilt years ago. The Brothers' War
• The thing descending from the sky was unmistakably an or­nate ornithopter, wrought in the shape of a gigantic condor, enameled in blue, scarlet, and green. Archive 2010-02-01
• Butterflies are also well represented in the area and include many restricted species such as purple brown eye Chaetocneme porphyropis, Australian hedge blue Udara tenella and Cairns birdwing Ornithoptera priamus euphorion (Australia's largest butterfly). Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia
• He said that although the Canadian ornithopter was powered by an engine it was still very close to what Da Vinci had intended.
• -- The term orthopter, or ornithopter, meaning bird wing, is applied to such flying machines as depend on wing motion to support them in the air. Aeroplanes
• An ornithopter is an aircraft that gets its forward propulsion from the flapping of wings (the ORNITH – in ornithopter comes from the ltain for “bird” – putting “ornith” on a prefix makes it “bird-like”) an ornithopter is a heavier-than-air aircraft that is propelled by the flapping of wings. KAMN Show #11: Dune : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas