No.1 | |
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Role | Experimental ornithopter |
Manufacturer | University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies |
Designer | James DeLaurier |
First flight | 8 July 2006 |
Number built | 1 |
The UTIAS Ornithopter No.1 ( registration C-GPTR) is an ornithopter that was built in Canada in the late 1990s. On 8 July 2006, it took off under its own power, assisted by a turbine jet engine, making a flight of around 300 metres that lasted 14 seconds, after which it crashed. [1]
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