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um.... is the car towing the ornithopter human powered.
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I think it would make me seasick. But it's pretty cool.
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um.... is the car towing the ornithopter human powered.
I think just to get it going - after that it looks like it is under its own power. I guess they could have tried pushing it off a cliff but I suspect that the Univ of Toronto would be sans one grad student...
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It is in ground effect at that height, I wonder if it would maintain a higher altitude. Scary stuff though, look at the undulations in the wing!!

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