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Since one of the "drones" is a 1970 era flapping bird wind up toy, I think they might be confused in their reporting. I know, that never happens at Fox.
I have no doubt they are working on ornithopter drones, I have serious doubts they plan to use them for daily surveillance of ordinary citizens in the near future, especially since, as mentioned above, they already have pretty comprehensive surveillance today, and this program is in it's infancy according to the report.

Here is a version of a real hovering dragonfly ornithopter that Kakuta pointed me to: http://youtu.be/wHZwVU61_f8

Ornithopter

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Ornithopters are here!!!

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I am sorry, but this is a *dupeof http://videosift.com/video/Human-powered-ornithopter.

is this different from http://videosift.com/video/Human-powered-ornithopter ?
i can't view Vimeo videos at the moment.

>> ^LarsaruS:

This is awesome... Dune is coming true.



Screw that. I want to ride a giant sandworm!

I love the human ornithopter at the beginning

Awesome. I took a fluid mechanics course with a prof who was involved with this project a few years ago. Never thought it would get off the ground.

University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, Project Ornithopter:
http://www.ornithopter.ca/index_e.html