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From: jocoats@amoco.com (Jack Coats)
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: A robotic Butterlfy!
Message-ID: <1994Aug3.095648.2092@amoco.com>
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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 1994 09:56:48 CDT
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I seem to rememeber seeing a  full scale pterodactyl fly in
'War Games' - the movie.  And saw the same thing, up close,
in a show on public television a while back too!

In article 9085@lucrece.robots.ox.ac.uk, sharkey@robots.ox.ac.uk (Paul Sharkey) writes:
>>John Nagle writes
>>
>>> Paul MacReady's company, AeroEnvironment, once built a flying
>>>model of a pyerodactyl, but it was several feet long.  
>>
>>     
>>One of our guys at U Reading built a full scale pterodactyl which flew
>>all the way into a New Scientist article. It was a bit before my time
>>(about 20 years ago) but I could dig out the reference for those
>>interested.
>>
>>(alternatively do a search in NS for Dr George Whitfield)
>>
>>Paul.
>>
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------------
>>Dr Paul M Sharkey               
>>
>>Dept Cybernetics, U Reading     Tel:   +44 (0)734 875 123 x 7674            
>>Whiteknights,                   Fax:   +44 (0)734 318 220
>>Reading, RG6 2AY                Email: cybpms@cyber.reading.ac.uk
>>
>>.... and sometimes at ...
>>Robotics Research Group         Tel:   +44 (0)865 273 150
>>Dept Eng Sci, Univ of Oxford    Fax:   +44 (0)865 273 908  
>>Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ      Email: sharkey@robots.oxford.ac.uk   
>>




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