Update: Just another fake
Smeets is actually Dutch filmmaker and animator Floris Kaayk, who worked in collaboration with media production company Revolver on the “media art project” that took the world by storm.
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Real or a fraud?
Dutch engineer flies by flapping his own wings
It’s been a dream of scientists ever since the days of Leonardo DiVinci and even Icarus — human-powered flight. But where some of the greatest scientific minds in history have failed, did Jarno Smeets, a mechanical engineer from the Netherlands, finally succeed in building a pair of working human wings?
The above video showing human flight was created by Smeets, and uploaded to YouTube earlier this week. It’s generating an incredible amount of controversy — half from people stunned that such a feat was accomplished, and half from people convinced the feat was a fraud.
The k2p blog 