THERE’S NOTHING wrong with dreaming, which is why Feedback enjoyed reading
the patent filing for the “Oya Glider” at the US Patent and Trademark
Office.
The glider turns out to be a computerised hang-glider that will revolutionise
unpowered flight. Its inventors, Kenneth Earl Gay and Marc Margulies, say it
incorporates advanced technologies such as synthetic feathers, shape memory
alloys and piezoelectric strips for generating power. They go on to claim that
it will “come as close as technologically possible to imitating a bird’s mastery
of the wind”.
The Oya Glider is undoubtedly an ingenious device, but surely no more than…
