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Most bizarre use of the phrase "like a WW1 biplane"?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6287367.stm

Perhaps Shuttleworth should get a few in?

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By: J Boyle - 23rd January 2007 at 17:18

Our local paper reproduced a news service graphic showing the animal’s two “wings” along with a cut away of a modern bird…and a line drawing of a bi-plane (looked like a WACO) showing its wing arrangement.
The headline mentioned Bi-plane.

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By: jeepman - 23rd January 2007 at 13:39

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6287367.stm

Perhaps Shuttleworth should get a few in?

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Well ………Shuttleworth have got an Archaeopterix, and the Science Museum have a Pterodactyl….

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By: stuart gowans - 23rd January 2007 at 10:48

Article says “animal” was a glider, so presumably not a candidate for earliest powered flight ; you might have thought that if insufficient lift was the problem, rather than fashion its legs into a crude lower wing, it might have tried flapping the ones it already had.

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