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The walkalong glider | Flying dreams
This is such a great video of Tyler MacCready (son of Paul MacCready, the famous aerontautical engineer). He designed a ‘walkalong glider’ which anyone can build. Even a kid could do it! It explains a...
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Birdwings or Batwings?
While the rain won’t stop coming in ‘winter Holland’, I enjoyed myself looking at my modern day birdman heroes. Such as Batman! Here’s an interesting short bit of text on the evolution of his cape. I...
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Sharing my flying dream
Between the roasted lamb and tiramisu dessert on Christmas day something wonderful happened. TechCrunch supported my project by sharing the news on my human birdwings. Here’s a short overview. Thanks...
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My wings on Dutch TV!
TV programme Tiswat of (dutch) regional tv station Omroep West filmed in my workplace in december. This is the result, a fun item i’d say! They aired it last tuesday (17th Jan).
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Human Birdwings on WIRED
These days I have been mainly focused with fixing details of the wings. So, you might have missed my regular updates? A digital friend actually wrote me wether I am still doing ok? I can tell you that...
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Podcast about my project
Three geeks who call themselves Three’s a Quorum made a great podcast about ‘the least important news of the day’, and my project is one of the items they talk about. It’s fun stuff to listen to. So...
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Learn from the birds
After my first testrun I had to reconsider my take-off techniques. A lot of people have commented on the way my wings move and my running; the AoA of the wings would not have been ideal and the...
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interview with HUMO
This tuesday (28th feb) an article about my project and my flying dream got published in the Belgian weekly HUMO. The picture they took is awesome. They made me look like batman! It’s written in Dutch....
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Flapping mechanism by Pascal Martinelli
Henryk, a frequent poster on my blog just sent me this video. It’s a wing mechanism by Pascal Martinelli. And I have to say it looks very promising. It would be interesting to see how this combines...
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The Flying Dutchman
Last week a piece about my wings appeared in the German Financial Times. Click the picture to be sent straight through.
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