The Tiny, Perfect Little Flying Machine
March 11, 2004 | bengisu
(From Popsci by Stephan Wilkinson). Cory Bird, an engineer at Burt Rutan's remarkable aviation design shop, builds a composite-fiber airplane of Swiss-watch precision. She's a real beauty: Hardly a screwhead or seam interrupts the mirror-perfect surface of Cory Bird's handmade airplane, Symmetry, the product of fanatical attention to detail, materials and design.
more: popsci.com/popsci/aviation/article/0,12543,592736, (276)
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