Buck503
01-22-2007, 08:31 PM
Dinosaur may have resembled the biplane
WASHINGTON - When the Wright Brothers first took to the sky in a biplane, they were using a design nature may have tried 125 million years earlier. A new study of one of the earliest feathered dinosaurs suggests it may have had upper and lower sets of wings, much like the biplanes of early aviation. Today, the biplane is widely considered an old-fashioned rarity.
And the design is no longer seen in birds, though it's not clear if it was a step on the way to modern birds or a dead end, tested by nature and discarded.
for more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070122/ap_on_sc/biplane_dinosaur
This is amazing to me. That our first attempts at flying may have
resembled a dinosaur that lived 125 million years ago!
WASHINGTON - When the Wright Brothers first took to the sky in a biplane, they were using a design nature may have tried 125 million years earlier. A new study of one of the earliest feathered dinosaurs suggests it may have had upper and lower sets of wings, much like the biplanes of early aviation. Today, the biplane is widely considered an old-fashioned rarity.
And the design is no longer seen in birds, though it's not clear if it was a step on the way to modern birds or a dead end, tested by nature and discarded.
for more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070122/ap_on_sc/biplane_dinosaur
This is amazing to me. That our first attempts at flying may have
resembled a dinosaur that lived 125 million years ago!