It's a bird...It's a plane...

[Ike]

It's a Bird-Plane!!!!!!1111one


http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1152395411588&call_pageid=968332188492&StarSource=RSS

http://www.thestar.com/images/thestar/img/060709_flapper_plane_300.jpg

[GDC]

http://members.aol.com/clipcom/umberto.jpg

[yermom]

i guess i don't get it

i mean i get it, but why is it such a big deal?

how can you compare it with the Wright Brothers 100+ years later? some private citizen gets to space a year or two ago and they are exited about flapping wings?

[mdklatt]

how can you compare it with the Wright Brothers 100+ years later? some private citizen gets to space a year or two ago and they are exited about flapping wings?


Yesterday Dr. James DeLaurier, an aeronautical engineer and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto's Institute for Aerospace Studies, fulfilled a lifelong dream, seeing his manned mechanical flapping-wing airplane, or ornithopter, fly — a dream first imagined by Leonardo da Vinci.

Dude, it's Canada. The Canadian "aerospace industry" consists of the manipulator arm on the Space Shuttle and slapping a "C" in front of the designator for US-made aircraft, i.e. the CF-18. :D



(Not really--Canada has some major aerospace horsepower, like de Haviland, Avro, and Bombardier.)