Abstract
In this light-hearted article Professor French looks at nature's design criteria for flying creatures in the light of modern engineering know-how, and sets out to prove that the design of much heavier flying creatures is possible, within the restrictions imposed by the technical resources available to nature, and that flight is only confined to animals of mass less than 14 kg by virtue of the limitations of the evolutionary mechanisms
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