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An '''ornithopter''' is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings like a bird.
 
An '''ornithopter''' is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings like a bird.
  
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The term '''orthopter''' is sometimes used synonymously but can be distinguished (as in [[Ventou-Duclaux and Robert, 1911, Bases et méthodes d'études aéronautiques]], pp. [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433087574996;view=1up;seq=387 375]–381) by distinguishing between flat flapping surfaces and flexible birdlike "wings". While both terms share the root "-pter" meaning wing, "orni-" means bird, whereas "ortho" means straight, and connotes the order of insects called Orthoptera (crickets, grasshoppers).
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See also [[orthopter]], a similar term which technically implies "straight" wings rather than bird wings.
  
 
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Revision as of 06:13, 21 May 2019

Edward Purkis Frost's 1902 ornithopter

An ornithopter is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings like a bird.

See also orthopter, a similar term which technically implies "straight" wings rather than bird wings.

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