"Andreas Maurer" wrote in message
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:34:29 -0000, "David Starer"
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(BTW: This idea is not new. This design was already described in a
humorous story in New Scientist at least 20 years ago).

And it wasn't new then. The prototype flew in 1863.

See John McPhee's "The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed" or do a Google search on
Aereon.

Tim Ward