It's a wonder those wire-rigged biplanes flew at all. Eventually they got to the Dornier Do X, a gigantic plane (with a vestigal upper wing) that could barely get out of ground effect.
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.Without freedom of speech we wouldn't know who all the idiots are. -- anonymous poster
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.Because much of what is in the published literature is nonsense,
and much of what isn’t nonsense is not in the scientific literature.
-- Sabine Hossenfelder
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