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...able to get enough lift to make one complete turn before landing again. Finally, on the eighth, it began to rise, climbing in gently looping circles, like a hawk riding an updraft of warm air, to an altitude of about 250 ft. "O.K., you guys," radioed Pilot Stephen Ptacek, 28, to a control team on the ground. "I suggest you get the cars ready to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Icarus Would Have Loved It | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

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