[757labs] fake or not?

[Trevor Lewis]

No verified confirmations yet. I found the HUMO articles though:

http://www.humo.be/actua/90061/jarno-smeets-fantast-of-marketeer

http://www.humo.be/humo-archief/87891/jarno-smeets-bouwt-zijn-eigen-vleugels


Google does a passable job of translation. The second one has an awesome
olde tyme video of an early parachute failure. (Spoiler alert! 15" crater!)

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Jameson Dungan <jameson.dungan at gmail.com>wrote:

> it's real.  I've seen other videos by him where it doesn't work.
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> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:24 PM, <telmnstr at 757.org> wrote:
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>>  http://www.humanbirdwings.net/
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>> I saw this on reddit and lots of people were calling fake. They were
>> sayign that the surface of the wings didn't have visibile loading on them,
>> as compared to when kites fly.
>>
>> But if you look at the wing, the upper area looks more rigid.
>>
>> People claimed they could see plain as day rotoscoping issues with the
>> video, but I wasn't able to really detect anything.
>>
>> The guy was flapping really hard and seemed really worked up over flying,
>> when it was supposed to be electronically driven. So I don't get that
>> either. And the wimote/seeduino/android combo seems a bit nutty.
>>
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