Human Birdwings Almost Manage to Work on Video

If you didn't know, there is a team working on giving people wings, literally, and it looks like the Human Birdwings project may be nearing success.

A video of the first test run (it wasn't exactly a flight) was posted on YouTube.

The liftoff was almost immediately followed by a landing, and the people shooting the flick sounded a bit disappointed.

Still, the fact remains that the potential for flight is really there.

Jarnos Smeets used, among other things, a Wiimote and a Wildfire S in the making of the Human Birdwings.

Hopefully, another video, this time of a true success, will be posted online soon. After all, flight has always been one of the abilities that humans craved.

For those who want to skip the introduction, the interesting bit starts at around 1:40.