Dr DeLaurier’s Fantastic Flying Machines

January 31st, 2009

Dr James DeLaurier is an inventor and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies.  This is his ‘Flapper’, the first ever human-carrying ornithopter.  DeLaurier also has the claim to the first ever microwave-powered aircraft, a small helicopter that drew power from a high-energy radio beam directed at it from underneath.

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