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  2. Stits DS-1 - Wikipedia

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    The Stits DS-1 Baby Bird is a homebuilt aircraft built to achieve a "world's smallest" status. The Baby Bird is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “Smallest Airplane in the World.” as of 1984. The title was later defined as "world's smallest monoplane" to acknowledge Robert H. Starr's Bumble Bee II as the world's smallest biplane. [1]

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    The content view is based on the physical order of objects within the PDF's content stream and may be displayed by software that does not fully support the tags' view, such as the Reflow feature in Adobe's Reader. PDF/UA, the International Standard for accessible PDF based on ISO 32000-1 was first published as ISO 14289–1 in 2012 and ...

  4. History of PDF - Wikipedia

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    Adobe distributed its Adobe Reader (now Acrobat Reader) program free of charge from version 2.0 onwards, [6] and continued supporting the original PDF, which eventually became the de facto standard for fixed-format electronic documents. [7] In 2008 Adobe Systems' PDF Reference 1.7 became ISO 32000:1:2008.

  5. Origin of avian flight - Wikipedia

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    The first such feature to be noted was the supposed similarity between the foot of Archaeopteryx and that of modern perching birds. The hallux , or modified of the first digit of the foot, was long thought to have pointed posterior to the remaining digits, as in perching birds.

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  7. Evelyn Bryan Johnson - Wikipedia

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    Evelyn Stone Bryan Johnson (November 4, 1909 – May 10, 2012), nicknamed "Mama Bird", was the world's oldest flight instructor, and -- at one point -- the pilot with the highest number of flying hours in the world, of any living pilot.

  8. Wright Flyer - Wikipedia

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    His first flight lasted 12 seconds for a total distance of 120 ft (37 m) – shorter than the wingspan of a Boeing 747. [2] [14] Taking turns, the Wrights made four brief, low-altitude flights that day. The flight paths were all essentially straight; turns were not attempted. Each flight ended in a bumpy and unintended landing.

  9. Stellaluna - Wikipedia

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    In a jungle of Africa, a mother fruit bat has a new baby, and names her Stellaluna. One night, an owl attacks the bats, knocking Stellaluna out of her mother's embrace, and she falls into the forest below. Soon the baby bat ends up in a sparrow's nest filled with three baby birds named Pip, Flitter and Flap.