From: "Andy Robertson" 
Subject: Re: (urth) Jungle Garden
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 07:15:52 +0100

They use lifting bodies:  Severian comments on it somewhere, how this
strange flier with wings was built by someone who didn't realise he could
simply shape the entire craft


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From: "Che Monro" 
On a completely tangential matter: Severian's reaction to the aeroplane
seems to indicate or at least imply that winged fliers are unknown in his
era.


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