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zeil
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Initially Posted - 03/21/2012 :  17:26:05  Show Profile

Has to be crazy Dutchman... have a look

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/03/flying_dutchman_makes_dream_a.php#.T2pnRigHxkg.mailto
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 03/21/2012 :  17:50:51  Show Profile
Knowing the Dutch (who ride bikes instead of driving cars), I doubt many Americans are going to be able to participate in that. We went a different way--about 109 years ago--the aerial stinkpot, for the American lifestyle.
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zeil
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Response Posted - 03/21/2012 :  18:32:57  Show Profile

Another example of "wooden head, wooden shoes and wooden listen"

The way fuel prices are going we just may have to get the bikes out of the shed again even on this our wonderful continent

Has it really been that long? Time flies...
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GaryB
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Response Posted - 03/21/2012 :  18:49:27  Show Profile
If you look closely the wings are never really completely "loaded" with lift. From what I've read elsewhere plus reviewing this video I'm betting it's a fake. Even when he's gliding the wings don't look "loaded" like they would if supporting themsleves and a human body.
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OJ
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Response Posted - 03/21/2012 :  18:59:18  Show Profile
flash in the pan?
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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 03/21/2012 :  19:14:46  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by GaryB</i>
<br />If you look closely the wings are never really completely "loaded" with lift. From what I've read elsewhere plus reviewing this video I'm betting it's a fake. Even when he's gliding the wings don't look "loaded" like they would if supporting themsleves and a human body.
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If it's a fake, he fooled the editors of the national news, because I saw the video on one of the networks tonight. It looked to me like he flared his landing perfectly, as if he has been doing it ever since he fell out of the nest.
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zeil
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Response Posted - 03/21/2012 :  19:21:28  Show Profile

I have a nasty feeling that I got sucked right into this... and it's not even April fools day... could it have worked?
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 03/21/2012 :  19:59:35  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by GaryB</i>
<br />If you look closely the wings are never really completely "loaded" with lift...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">I see multiple "ribs" in each wing, with the fabric bowed up between wings when gliding. When flapping, the fabric oscillates from bowed up to bowed down. The wings are articulated with "elbows" so they generate more power on the down-stroke than on the up-stroke, like a bird. I'd rather believe! (...although I don't think my pecs are up to it!)
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PCP777
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Response Posted - 03/22/2012 :  12:27:33  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Steve Milby</i>
<br /><blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by GaryB</i>
<br />If you look closely the wings are never really completely "loaded" with lift. From what I've read elsewhere plus reviewing this video I'm betting it's a fake. Even when he's gliding the wings don't look "loaded" like they would if supporting themsleves and a human body.
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If it's a fake, he fooled the editors of the national news, because I saw the video on one of the networks tonight. It looked to me like he flared his landing perfectly, as if he has been doing it ever since he fell out of the nest.
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Hoax.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112498926/flying-dutchmans-story-crashes-and-burns/
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OJ
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Response Posted - 03/22/2012 :  15:10:30  Show Profile
Hah!

And a MFA to boot!

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/22/viral-human-bird-wings-video-fake-probably-ad-expert-says/
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zeil
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Response Posted - 03/22/2012 :  17:10:12  Show Profile

There you go... can't even trust my own country people anymore...
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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 03/22/2012 :  17:24:26  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by zeil</i>
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There you go... can't even trust my own country people anymore...
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...or the network tv news!
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