2023年10月14日 · Leonardo da Vinci went to extraordinary lengths in order to design a flying machine, and combined his knowledge of nature and engineering to come up with a variety of ideas.

For much of his life, Leonardo was fascinated by the phenomenon of flight, producing many studies of the flight of birds, including his c. 1505 Codex on the Flight of Birds, as well as plans for several flying machines, including a helicopter and a light hang glider.

The Great Kite (Italian: il Grande Nibbio) was a wooden machine designed by Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo realized it between the end of the 15th Century and the beginning of the 16th Century. Drawings of parts and components of this machine can be found in the Codex on the flight of birds, which however lacks the overall description of the ...

In the mid-1480s, Leonardo da Vinci designed an armored tank for the Duke of Milan. Explore a 3D model of this innovative design and learn how it would have worked.

In his study of flight, Leonardo da Vinci came up with over a hundred drawings and sketches relating to flight. The result was him coming up with several different designs for a flying machine. One of these was for a machine that would lift up into the air using a man-powered rotor.

2013年8月22日 · Most of Leonardo’s aeronautical designs were ornithopters, machines that employed flapping wings to generate both lift and propulsion. He sketched such flying machines with the pilot prone, standing vertically, using arms, using legs. He drew detailed sketches of flapping wing mechanisms and means for actuating them.

One of da Vinci’s most famous inventions, the flying machine (also known as the "ornithopter") ideally displays his powers of observation and imagination, as well as his enthusiasm for the potential of flight.