saw this in professional engineering magazine and thought it was interesting



http://www.ornithopter.ca/index_e.html

mankind tried for centuries to fly like a bird, i.e. with flapping wings, but the idea was abandoned for fixed wings that generate lift and thrust. a team of geeks in canada have built a working model that takes off and flies by flapping it's wings looks funny

http://www.ornithopter.ca/images/200...flight_low.wmv