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This was a model lost on my harddrive for a while, i recovered it and thought i'd do something with it, it is a bird-shaped artifact made of wood, discovered during the 1898 excavation of the Pa-di-Imen tomb in Saqqara, Egypt. It has been dated to approximately 200 BCE, and is now housed in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo.
wingspan: 180 mm (7.1 in)
weight: 39.12 g (1.380 oz)
According to this video [www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGVWcF… excerpt from a History channel show showing aerodynamical and flight sims tests conducted at the Liverpool university, it really could of have flown over the pyramids taking advantage of hot ascending air to gain altitude.

Now is it a real scale model of a planed manned glider or is it an out-of-place artifact? We'll probably never know.
3dsmax, Mray.

Description
This was a model lost on my harddrive for a while, i recovered it and thought i'd do something with it, it is a bird-shaped artifact made of wood, discovered during the 1898 excavation of the Pa-di-Imen tomb in Saqqara, Egypt. It has been dated to approximately 200 BCE, and is now housed in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo.
wingspan: 180 mm (7.1 in)
weight: 39.12 g (1.380 oz)
According to this video [www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGVWcF… excerpt from a History channel show showing aerodynamical and flight sims tests conducted at the Liverpool university, it really could of have flown over the pyramids taking advantage of hot ascending air to gain altitude.

Now is it a real scale model of a planed manned glider or is it an out-of-place artifact? We'll probably never know.
3dsmax, Mray.