READER INPUT

Where makers tell their tales and offer praise, brickbats, and swell ideas.

Image It was great to see the ornithopter project in MAKE 08! For anyone who missed it, an ornithopter is a device that flies like a bird, by flapping wings. I hope MAKE readers find the same fascination and enjoyment I’ve had from designing and building my own flying bird models over the past 20 years.

Gurstelle’s build instructions were great as usual, but the intro focused on the negative. Instead of giving a sense of all the fantastic accomplishments in this field, it was the same rhetoric we’ve heard so many times before: people can’t fly by flapping wings, ...

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