The Author .................................................... vii
Preface ........................................................ ix
Photo Credits ................................................... x
Chapter 1: Mythology or Fact: Flight in Early
Civilisations .................................... 1
Chapter 2: Leonardo da Vinci - a Scientist among
Sceptical Philosophers .......................... 11
Chapter 3: The Nineteenth Century - the Zenith of the
Ornithopter ..................................... 31
Chapter 4: The Sublime and the Ridiculous .................. 55
Chapter 5: Pre-War Germany - the 'Muskelflug Institut'
and Haessler's 'Mufli' aircraft ................. 83
Chapter 6: The Spotlight Turns to Italy and Russia ........ 107
Chapter 7: A Period of Reappraisal - Measurements of
Man-Power and Studies of Bird and Insect
Flight ......................................... 125
Chapter 8: Formation of the Man-Powered Aircraft
Committee at Cranfield ......................... 137
Chapter 9: The Kremer Competition - Catalyst for
Worldwide Activity, and the First Entrant ...... 153
Chapter 10: 'Puffin' and her Contemporaries - a
Professional Approach .......................... 175
Chapter 11: A United Kingdom 'Miscellany' of the 1960s ..... 199
Chapter 12: The First Man-Powered Flight Simulator - One
of Several Canadian Projects ................... 215
Chapter 13: Projects in Japan, Austria, South Africa and
the United States .............................. 229
Chapter 14: Man-Powered Rotorcraft and the Persistence
of the 'Bird-Men' .............................. 249
Chapter 15: Research and Development Work - The Basis
for a New Generation of Aircraft? .............. 263
Chapter 16: One or Two Pilots? - 'Toucan' and other
Current Machines ............................... 283
Chapter 17: Future Prospects ............................... 309
Appendices: I. Patents ...................................... 315
II. Conversion Factors ........................... 325
III. Abbreviations ................................ 327
IV. Bibliography ................................. 328
V. Kremer Competition Rules ..................... 333
VI. Definitions .................................. 338
Addendum: Has the Kremer Competition been Won? ................ 341
Index ......................................................... 343
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