{{Expand language|topic=Biography|langcode=el|otherarticle=Πισανκούρ|date=April 2022}} In 1889; '''Pichancourt''' (first name is not known) developed the L'Oiseau Mechanique (Mechanical Bird) which aimed to imitate the motion of a bird's wings in flight.
<gallery> Image:pichancourt-flyingbird.jpg|Mechanical Bird 1889 </gallery>
==References== * Chanute, Octave, ''Progress in Flying Machines'', Dover, 1894 (reprinted 1998), {{ISBN|0-486-29981-3}}
Category:19th-century French inventors
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