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Definition of Ornithopter
1. Noun. Heavier-than-air craft that is propelled by the flapping of wings.
Definition of Ornithopter
1. Noun. An aircraft that generates lift through the flapping of its wings. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ornithopter
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ornithopter
Literary usage of Ornithopter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aircraft: Its Development in War and Peace and Its Commercial Future by Evan John David (1919)
"The ornithopter is another heavier-than-air craft which seeks to fly by flapping
wings like a bird. The effort to build this type of machine is as old as ..."
2. Flying Machines: Construction and Operation; a Practical Book which Shows by William James Jackman, Thomas Herbert Russell, Octave Chanute (1912)
"Form of the ornithopter. The ornithopter has hinged planes which work like the
wings of a bird. At first thought this would seem to be the correct principle ..."
3. Practical Aeronautics: An Understandable Presentation of Interesting and by Charles Brian Hayward (1912)
"Just as there is a certain class that still looks to the ultimate development of
the ornithopter, so is there likewise another class which does not appear ..."
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