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Listen: The Latin ProgramOrnithopter and inventor George R. White at Saint Augustine.
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The ornithopter was a wing-flapping, foot-propelled flying machine made by George R. White, a former flying instructor from Stoney Brook, Long Island, New York. The frame weighed 118 pounds, the wingspan was 29.5 feet, and it was 8 feet in length. It was made of chrome molybdenum covered with a non-inflammable transparent celluloid fabric.
Trial flights were conducted on the beach at St. Augustine.
White hoped to attain a speed of 40 miles per hour.
It crashed on a test flight, but it was later improved.
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