{"id":189,"date":"2010-09-24T07:56:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T12:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bikeforest.com\/?p=189"},"modified":"2010-09-24T07:59:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T12:59:43","slug":"the-snowbird-human-powered-ornithopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"The Snowbird Human-Powered Ornithopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Snowbird Human-Powered Ornithopter was designed and constructed by a team of students from the University of Toronto. On August 2nd 2010 it sustained level flight for 19.3 seconds, becoming the world&#8217;s first successful human-powered ornithopter.  Rather than employing a pedaling action via a chain drive, the Snowbird uses a rowing motion using componentry from Derk Thijs&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rowingbike.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rowingbike<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"World&#039;s First Human-Powered Ornithopter\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0E77j1imdhQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<\/div><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>For more info visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/hpo.ornithopter.net\" target=\"_blank\">hpo.ornithopter.net<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Snowbird Human-Powered Ornithopter was designed and constructed by a team of students from the University of Toronto. On August 2nd 2010 it sustained level flight for 19.3 seconds, becoming the world&#8217;s first successful human-powered ornithopter. Rather than employing a pedaling action via a chain drive, the Snowbird uses a rowing motion using componentry from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}