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Old 11-01-2012, 12:24 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ECONORAM View Post
Well, we humans aren't really the sharpest knives in the drawer. It took us over a 100 years of flight to mimic what God's done with birds for millennia...
Yeah it took us 100 years while God was whittling away for millions of years.
Aren't we slow!

And yet birds still can't master the stick shift.

I thought some wing designs were supposed to mitigate those vortexes. For instance, Airbuses' upturned wing tips.

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