Long before powered aircraft, inventors studied the way birds moved their wings and imagined machines that could imitate flight.
The ornithopter came from that idea: a flying machine driven by flapping wings rather than propellers or jets.This model brings that principle into view through gears, linkages, and moving metal wings.
Piece by piece, the mechanism comes together until the finished model turns a centuries-old fascination with flight into a mechanical object you can build, watch, and keep.