Leonardo da Vinci drew up sketches for a human-powered flying machine back in 1485 but he never got to build one. On Wednesday, some 525 years later, Todd Reichert, a PhD student at the University of Toronto, announced that he had completed the first continuous flight with such a machine. An aircraft with flapping wings, a device known as an ornithopter.
I’m sure it’s an important milestone if you’re an aviation nerd, but is it worth the media attention it received? It doesn’t impact our lives in any way and we’ve been able to fly for quite a while now.
But I might be missing something here and you are free to enlighten me. Oh, and there’s a video of its first flight below.
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via thestar.com
