Folio 858r of the Codex Atlanticus, covering a sheet with ornithopter designs in which a pilot drives articulated wings modelled directly on the wing bones of a bat. Leonardo's flight studies ran for over twenty years and produced the first serious analysis of air resistance, even though no machine was ever built.
Folio 858r of the Codex Atlanticus, covering a sheet with ornithopter designs in which a pilot drives articulated wings modelled directly on the wing bones of a bat. Leonardo's flight studies ran for over twenty years and produced the first serious analysis of air resistance, even though no machine was ever built.Read more
