da Vinci Ornithopter Il Cigno
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Glider. Il Cigno (on display at TMOF) is not a slavish reproduction of one of Leonardo's sketches. The builders of this aircraft replica concluded that Leonardo's sketches were simply a thinking process, never intended to be made into working machines.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Neil Householder Aircraft Collection
Collection — Box One
Identifier: 2015-08-23
Contents of the Collection
The Neil Householder Aircraft Collection is a small collection that includes textual materials and photographs related to three aircraft; the Boeing 2707 SST, the "Buffalo" experimental STOL, and Il Cigno, a Da Vinci-inspired glider, circa 1960s-2003. The items were given to or gathered by Householder during his time as a Boeing employee and, later, a restoration volunteer at The Museum of Flight. Included in the collection are 30 black-and-white photographs of the Boeing 2707...
Dates:
circa 1960s-2003
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives