Tank Fixer wrote in message nk.net...
In article ,
on Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:51:37 -0000,
Sarah Hotdesking attempted to
say .....


No. Lift Demons eat Thrust Pixies and their genietic material is
incompatible so there are no hybrid Thrust Demons.



I had heard that a Lift Pixie had been bred in Andora....

As always the Chinese seem to have been there first. Temple in his
reduction of Needham down to 240 pages, The Genius of China, tells of
one Ko Hung.."Someone asked the Master (Ko Hung) about the principles
of mounting to dangerous heights and traveling into the vast inane.
The Master said..some have made flying cars with wood from the inner
part of the jujube tree, using ox leather straps fastened to returning
blades so as to set the machine in motion. Others have the idea of
making five snakes, six dragons and three oxen to meet the 'hard wind'
and ride on it, not stopping until they have risen to a height of 40
li (about 65,000 feet). The the ch'i [emnation of the sky or perhaps
wind] is extremely hard, so much so that it can overcome the strength
of human beings. snip Take dragons, for example; when they first
rise they go up using the clouds as steps, and after they attained a
height of forty li then they rush forward effortlessly gliding."

That jujube tree device sounds like the Osprey. It would seem we
should investigate the possibility of renting/leasing/buying some of
the Chinese dragons as insurance against Lift Pixie and Thrust Demon
labour action.