Human Powered Aircraft

Nihon University Aero Student Group (English)

And its links

Mailing List (Japanese)
[BM]F Write to birdman-ml-ctl@first.tsukuba.ac.jp with # guide as contents to get a guidance mail. (auto)

BBS (Japanese)
NiftyserveF faeros 17th room
(Any member of the BBS Niftyserve can enter the room)

Human Powered Vehicle

International Human Powered Vehicle Association (English)

And its links

Mailing List (English)
HPV ML: Write to bwilson@cs.sonoma.edu for information
For joining adress is majordomo@ihpva.org with subject:append. (auto)

Ornithopter

Flapping Wings! The Ornithopter Home Page (English)

And its links

Ornithopter Group of Virtual Mecha Park Project in Kyusyu Univ.(Japanese)

Mailing List (English)
OMSLIST: Write to Nathan Chronister(chronstr@bucknell.edu) to join.

Mailing List (Japanese)
flap: Write to Kazuho KAWAI(kazuho@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp)to join.

<Various Sources>

Research of Flapping in Japan

• Microflight (in Miura-Shimoyama lab. Dept. Mechano-Informatics, The Univ. Tokyo)
  
• Artificial Butterfly (in Miura-Shimoyama lab., Dept. Mechano-Informatics, The Univ. Tokyo)
  
• Subjects (Japanese) (in Kawachi Lab., Advanced Systems Dept., The Univ. Tokyo
  
• Applied Mathematics and Applied Biology (in Takeshi Sugimoto's Home Page in Dept. Mech. Eng, Saitama Institute of Technology)
  
• Ornithopter Project Preliminary Announcement (Japanese) (in Dept. Aeronautics and Astronautics, Kyusyu Univ.)
  

Misc. about Ornithopter

• UIUC Applied Aerodynamics Group: Misc Dr. James Delaurier's and Jeremy Harris' Ornithopter Design
  
• igests/digest.852.txtCode Data of Wingtype of James DeLaurier's Ornithopter
  
• Low Speed Aerodynamics and Aircraft Flight Dynamics in Toronto University
  
• Photo of Prof. DeLaurier's ornithopter
  
• Three papers of Jorge Cayley
  
• Yoku yuu Prof. Azuma's report (Japanese)
  
• USCAE - Swimming and flying in nature by G.R. Spedding
  
• Prof. Peter Lissaman Photo of Ornithopter in his hands.
  
• Frost Frost's Ornithopter (1902)
  
• Roy Beckemeyer's Animal Locomotion References Page REFERENCES ON ANIMAL LOCOMOTION
  
• Robot Blimp- Bipedal Onithopter UAV Airship with flapping wing
  
• Photo of an ornithopter at Blaa Hallen meeting 1995 (in The Indoor Model Aeroplane pages by Daniel Hartstein)
  
• Palika Goldstein's Home Pages Da Vinci's Ornithopter
  
• National Building Museum - Gift Shop Da Vinci Flying Machine; Da Vinci's ornithopter type model $15
  
• Flying Circle Graphics; Illustrations of ornithopters, etc.
  
  Da Vinci's Ornithopter
  Illustration of James Gurney's ornithopter
  
• The man who draws dinosaurs all day Illustration of a James Gurney's dragonfly type ornithopter
  
• Illustration of ornithopter (in TOYOTA Home Pate)
  
• Hypertext Webster Interface -- Definition for "ornithopter" Definition of the word "ornithopter"
  
• Generic Ornithopter (in HAPPY HERB'S TRANSDIMENSIONAL NEW AND USED VEHICLE DEALERSHIP)
  
• Olympian Systems, Ltd. Artemis Mk. VII Wings (TL 8) (in HAPPY HERB'S TRANSDIMENSIONAL NEW AND USED VEHICLE DEALERSHIP Spring Catalog)
  
• Blue Max Movie Aircraft Museum Only exhibition annoucement of Waxflatter Ornithopter BAPC.238
  
• NightAndDay.jpg Post annoucement of an illustration to alt.binaries.pictures, alt.binaries.pictures.misc
  
• rec.kites archive
  
  Just posted ornithopter plans
  Anyone into ornithopters?
  orinthopters
  
• Hang Gliding Mailing List acvhive
  Subject: Flapping wing Hang-Glider ? Is it a dream?
  
  Vol95HGdigests/HGdigest.103V95.txt
  Vol95HGdigests/HGdigest.104V95.txt
  Vol95HGdigests/HGdigest.105V95.txt
  Vol95HGdigests/HGdigest.108V95.txt
  
• United States Patent about Ornithopter
  
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Human Powered Aircraft

University group in Japan

• NASG
• TBW (Japanese)
• Tokai University
• Maister
• Ftec (Japanese)
• KIT Wings (Japanese)
• Meiji University (Japanese, but contents are almost photos)
• Kyusyu University (Japanese)
• E_N_GA_N_GYO_BI_TA_I Home Page (Japanese)
• PAMRO (Japanese)
• WASA (Japanese)
• Shooting Stars(Japanese) (in Tatsuta's Home Page)

• Kidachi's Home Page
• Yamada's Home Page

• RAVEN Project
• Muskelkraftflugzeug Velair build in the University of Stuttgart 1988. Now, solar aircraft Icare 2 is under their project.
  
• FAI Human Powered Aircraft World Records
• McIntyre's Home Page
• Museum of Science, Boston Exhibition of Daedalus and Monarch
  • On-line Tour of the Exhibit
  • Daedalus
  • Monarch
• The Human-Powered Helicopter in Texas University
• HOMEBUILTS, EXPERIMENTALS, KITPLANES, AND ULTRALIGHTS