It was before the dawn of recorded history that the first great Age of Sail began. Perhaps along the Nile River, a genius lived who observed the ways of swans and reached a brilliant conclusion. If birds could fluff out their feathers to catch the wind, and drift effortlessly against the current, why couldn’t humans learn the same trick?
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(2007). Sky Clippers. In: Living Off the Land in Space. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68316-4_13
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