Word: pterodactyl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pilot took the sun-powered Solar Challenger 163 miles from France to a base in England. No wonder the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1980 named MacCready its Engineer of the Century. In the years since, MacCready has fashioned such marvels as the wing-flapping pterodactyl that flew in the IMAX film On the Wing, the General Motors "Impact" electric car and the unmanned solar-powered Pathfinder, which has already flown to 80,000 ft.--higher than any other propeller-driven aircraft...
Death and extinction are supposed to tie in with the recurring and problematic dinosaur motif. While the others are doomed dinosaurs. Todd has set himself apart, a Pterodactyl among lizards destined for a different fate. He is slated to survive as something eternal; vigilance, vengeance, or perhaps something darker...
...years later, the Osceola New Life Assembly Church bought the hangar, and the SST was thrown in for free. Pastor Ernie DeLoach began holding services in the hangar, with the pterodactyl-like mock-up perched near his pulpit. But now the building needs renovation, and the SST must go. Unless someone comes to the rescue, the church will sell it to the highest bidder. One proposal: hack up the plane into 1-in. squares to be sold for souvenirs...
...since. In 1986 another MacCready creation, perhaps his most remarkable, swooped high over Death Valley while being photographed for the Smithsonian Institution's IMAX film On the Wing. It was an awesomely realistic, radio-controlled, computer-brained, wing-flapping replica of the largest creature ever to have flown, the pterodactyl, which vanished with its dinosaur cousins some 65 million years...
...Gossamer Condor now hangs in a permanent spot next to the Wright brothers' first airplane at the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum, where the Solar Challenger and the pterodactyl have been displayed. The Smithsonian has also acquired the Gossamer Albatross and the Sunraycer...