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China Rolls out World's Largest Amphibious Aircraft
The Xinhua News Agency said the AG600 rolled off a production line in Zhuhai in southern China on Saturday. It measures 37 meters (121 feet) in length with a wingspan of 39 meters (128 feet). The report cites Chinese state aircraft maker, the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, as saying the plane is nearly as big as a Boeing 737. (abcnews.go.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I hate having to see ABC news and other ads before seeing the story I clicked on to see, I just close it and move on... If you want us to see your news segments, give it to us like we ask for it.. SO Glad Verizon is buying you away from ABC.. it has to get better.
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Sir, I'm impelled to challenge your accuracy and credentials in re Greek mythology.
Icarus and his daddy Daedalus were neither of them gods (and it was the gods who punished Greeks anyway, never the other way round). They were both very much mortal and had been imprisoned in the Cretan Labyrinth (designed, ironically, by Daedalus) by no less than King Minos himself (q.v.)
Daedalus, a clever sort, fashioned wings out of wax and feathers as a means of escape. Icarus, ignoring his flight instructor's warnings, flew too high. The heat of the sun melted the wax, his feathers fell out, and he augered into the sea.
One moral the Greeks drew from this cautionary tale is the danger of succumbing to hubris (in this case, flying too high being exemplary of a mortal striving egotistically to emulate the gods). It can be seen that hubris is still alive and well -- yes, even on this website as one soars high above the safe limits of one's own knowledge base alluding to matters of which his knowledge is regrettably less than sufficient.
Icarus and his daddy Daedalus were neither of them gods (and it was the gods who punished Greeks anyway, never the other way round). They were both very much mortal and had been imprisoned in the Cretan Labyrinth (designed, ironically, by Daedalus) by no less than King Minos himself (q.v.)
Daedalus, a clever sort, fashioned wings out of wax and feathers as a means of escape. Icarus, ignoring his flight instructor's warnings, flew too high. The heat of the sun melted the wax, his feathers fell out, and he augered into the sea.
One moral the Greeks drew from this cautionary tale is the danger of succumbing to hubris (in this case, flying too high being exemplary of a mortal striving egotistically to emulate the gods). It can be seen that hubris is still alive and well -- yes, even on this website as one soars high above the safe limits of one's own knowledge base alluding to matters of which his knowledge is regrettably less than sufficient.
At least this article had a picture included. last article I saw had no photo, so I thought it was a stealth amphibious aircraft
Looks exactly like a larger version of the Japanese AC that has been in service for years.
They resurrected the Martin Mariner;}