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by david-gpu 342 days ago
A denser-than-air vehicle that could equal or exceed bird flight --sometines called an airplane-- is for mathematical reasons impossible, for two specific reasons:

1. Bird flight is a capability of a complex dynamic system -- the bird's musculoskeletal system and its brain.

2. Systems of these sort cannot be modelled mathematically in a way that allows them to operate inside a machine.