Video: Dutchman Flaps His Arms And Flies
Technology Jarno Smeets has been working for several months on his Human Bird Wings project -- assembling long nylon wings powered by outrunner motors, rigging up a complicated Android… Jarno Smeets...
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Technology On a Dutch TV show named, with utter Dutchness, De Wereld Draait Door, the man previously known as Jarno Smeets--of the Human Bird Wing video, in which he flies under mostly… On a Dutch TV...
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Science Resident physics dude Adam Weiner shows us what it would really take to lift a human body off the ground, bird-style The notion of a person flying like a bird has universal and enduring...
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