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FELIX SCHARSTEIN, born in 1966.
Freelance
precision mechanic living in Berlin; technical and creative work for
museums
and exhibitions.
WOLFGANG SEND, born in 1944,
physicist.
PhD in Theoretical Gas Dynamics, Hamburg 1976. Working in
Aerodynamics
at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), site Göttingen, at the
Institute
of Aeroelasticity . Lecturer at the University of Göttingen from
1988
to 2003 (The Aerodynamics of Animal Flight).
TOGETHER we co-operate since
1992.
We started with building free flying models of artificial birds. The
small
company ANIPROP GbR was founded in 1995 aiming at own means for doing
some
research work on flapping wings. The test stand ANIPROP RL3 received
some
attention through many invitations to experimental lectures on "The
Physics
of Flying". Several reproductions were built within the recent
years.
The experimental lecture The
Physics of Flying was selected by an international jury as one
of the two German plenary lectures (named presentations) contributing
to
the Physics-on-Stage
Festival
in Geneve, November 2000. We were invited to the "Highlights
in Physics 2002" event, organized by the German Physical Society
together
with several other institutions. In 2003, we held the public lecture
"From
Birdflight to Jetliners" at the annual aeronautical congress of
the
German Aeronautical Society (DGLR),
which
was devoted to the 100th anniversary of the first powered flight. Since
several years we contribute the one-week course "The Physics of Flying"
to the XLAB International
Science
Camp, which is affiliated to the University of Göttingen.
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and instruments are registered designs and partially protected by
patents.
Please, contact us for licensed copies. You may obtain our blueprints
with
the full information for your own reproduction: our
address.
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present
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mistakes,
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the COPYRIGHT for the contents of our web pages, as far as the further
distribution on portable electronic media (TAPE, CD, DVD) and as
printed
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schools
and at universities, who make use of our pages for educational purposes
in their own classes and without commercial intention beyond.
Nevertheless,
we would be pleased to get to know about that per info@aniprop.de.
- We use
the fonts Souvenir Lt BT and Arial Rounded bold: anifont.zip.
- Besides
the widely accepted Portable Document Format (PDF), we started to offer
special formats like Mircrosoft Excel files und PowerPoint files. These
files are tagged as follows:
 for PDF files
 for Microsoft PowerPoint files
 for Microsoft Excel files
Meanwhile,
these formats work well with the operating system Linux using
the
product OpenOffice .
By the
way: The name ANIPROP is composed of ANImal PROPulsion. A couple
of years ago it used to be a working title - and now we can't miss it
any
more!
Problems
with our web site? Please, send an e-mail to: webmaster@aniprop.de
Last
update: August 12, 2009. Editor of the aniprop.de website and editorial
responsibility: Dr. Wolfgang
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