How Ornithopters Fly

• Home
• The principle of flight
  • Gait change
• Other flapping wings
• E. v. Holst / K. Herzog
• Models EV1 to EV4
  • Driving mechanism EV4
  • Cardan gear mechanism
• Models EV5 and EV6
• Model EV7
  • Flight stability
  • Rack-and-pinion drive system
  • Drawings of the
    driving mechanism
  • 3 meter bird at approach
• Model EV8
  • Manufacturing of the fuselage
  • Drive unit
  • Functional description
    of the drive
  • Control of flight speed
• Articulated flapping wings
• Videos
• Report about EV-models
• Handbook
  • Calculation tools
• Literature
• Links

Development, theory and practice
of large ornithopter models

Picture series of the model EV7