Why Can't People Fly?
| A very good question and one which people have asked for centuries. Leonardo daVinci worked on ideas for flight but discovered that the muscle structure in humans was very different to that in birds. | |
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| Birds have much bigger pectoral muscles, these are 35% of a birds body weight. Leonardo used dead bodies to undertake his research. We use the Internet! | |
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Leonardo tried
to design flying machines using leg power. There are many
drawings but none that worked! Nearly three hundred years ago people wanted to fly like the birds. Leonardo tried to make this come true but we know a lot more about the forces involved in flight. |
| This is a machine designed by Leonardo Da Vinci to be flown using leg power. We know that this was far too heavy, but he was on the right lines. |  |
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