[justicezyx]

"They have no resemblance to birds at all. Yet they're million times better and faster than any bird."

LMAO

A 6 years old kid can see the fundamental resemblance between a bird and a modern passenger airplane: The wings Tail stabilizer Slender body

Planes are faster bigger

Are they better?

Not necessarily, for example, humming bird can fly in a way that is far beyond any human machine in terms of efficiency and flexibility.

Of course man should not imitate birds, because human flight is fundamentally different activity than bird flying. But to say human aviation did not start by mimicking birds, is like to say Ann was not inspired human brain...

[nightski]

I think the point was that aviation at the time did start mimicking birds and that was why there was so much failure. It was not until they let go of mimicking birds and took a different approach that they found success.

[deehouie]

See my link to his ICML talk above.