Leonardo’s fantastic flying machines

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The 15th century Italian artist and all-round genius Leonardo da Vinci combined engineering skills with his understanding of the natural world to design a variety of airborne contraptions. But could any of them have worked? Bridget Kendall speaks to Prof Martin Kemp, Prof Marina Wallace, and Carmen C Bambach. Photo: Diagrams from a notebook by Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci (SSPL/Getty Images)