Not to downplay the importance of what they've done, but that video shows a plane gliding, accelerated by a car.
Wouldn't they need to show lift via the flapping of wings to show that it isn't a glider with wings that flap, but rather the flapping of wings is actually creating lift?
Cabin has wheels under it. I think in an ideal environment, for example a runway, he could have created lift by just flapping the wings with enough speed over a certain period of time.
Actually it really looks as though the wings only provide lift and that acceleration provided by the car could not be achieved otherwise and the forward movement could not be achieved therefore making it rather unlikely that the plane would lift off the ground on its own.
Still rather amazing and a very beautiful machine.
Wouldn't they need to show lift via the flapping of wings to show that it isn't a glider with wings that flap, but rather the flapping of wings is actually creating lift?