Human-powered plane takes to skies

Friday, September 24, 2010 - 19:21 in Earth & Climate

A Canadian student inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's centuries-old sketches of an ornithopter he was the first to make a sustained flight in a human-powered, wing-flapping aircraft.

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