The main idea of the film is to show that when designing aircraft, it is promising to use information about the design features of insect wings.
Animated insert - Ancient Rus', a man with wings flies down, people around him watch the flight.
Seagulls are flying.
Black and white footage - a man riding a bicycle with wings in a field.
A homemade device with wings.
The title of the book is in large print - "Ornithopter: from idea to machine".
In the frame, designers.
A homemade flying machine in a clearing.
An article in a newspaper about the ornithopter.
A homemade flying machine in a clearing.
An article in a newspaper about the ornithopter.
A man in the cockpit of the flying machine.
Self-taught designers in a clearing, testing ornithopters.
An article about the ornithopter.
Footage of different types of ornithopters.
In large print - a butterfly on a flower.
Lake, banks, trees.
Grass, flowers, butterflies, bees, dragonflies are flying.
Pictures of flora and fauna of prehistoric times.
Fossilized remains of a prehistoric insect, the imprint of a wing is clearly visible on the stone.
A collection of different butterflies.
Butterfly and cricket wings flapping in slow motion.
Insect wing shown in detail.
Tweezers touching wing.
Slow motion footage of different insects in flight.
Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Ecology of Animals in Moscow.
An employee of the institute watches a microscope-enlarged and scanned image on the screen.
Close-up - a hand on the control panel.
Close-up - an image of a wing enlarged under a microscope.
Close-up - a hand turning the handle of the equipment.
Close-up - an image of a wing enlarged under a microscope.
Close-up - a hand turning the handle of the equipment.
Close-up - a maple seed in the form of a wing.
Fish scales under a microscope.
Enlarged image of an insect wing.
An employee of the institute works with equipment and looks at the monitor.
The employee films the flight of insects with special equipment.
Various slow motion footage of insects in flight.
A floating model with wings in the water.
Slow motion footage of an insect in flight.
The model moving in the water.
Wings, ornithopter, aircraft, insects, butterflies
Moscow
Summer
Slow motion footage of insects in flight.
An oar in the water.
Rowing, athletes are rowing in a boat.
Close-up - an oar is rowing in the water.
A lake, rowboats are sailing.
A butterfly in slow motion.
Leningrad University, Department of Entomology - an employee is studying the flight of a butterfly.
The flight is studied in a laser beam.
Image of a butterfly, you can see how the wings form a vortex trail.
The face of an institute employee.
Image of a butterfly, you can see how the wings form a vortex trail.
An employee of the institute, Doctor of Biological Sciences Brodsky A.K. next to a poster showing the movement of insect wings, vortex air flows - he talks about how research is conducted, observing insects using a laser beam.
Brodsky demonstrates vortex flows on the poster.
Slow motion in a laser beam - traces of the butterfly's wings are visible.
Scheme of a vortex trail from the movement of butterfly wings.
Slow motion in a laser beam - traces of the butterfly's wings are visible.
Various slow-motion shots of butterflies in flight.
Says candidate of biological sciences Bocharova-Messner O. M. Close-up - a butterfly on a flower.
Field, grass, flowers, insects.
A hang glider takes off from a mountain.
A hang glider in the sky.
A bird's eye view of the earth - a river, a forest, etc.
A hang glider hovers over a plain.
Panorama of a river, forest, rocks.
Insects, wings, butterfly, hang glider
Summer