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The T.I.... T? Please god, someone, anyone - tell me that's not the real name.

I keep thinking of the Andy Kim song Rainbow Ride - I ain't takin' no Oxyride, I ain't take no Oxyride, girl.]]>May 1st 2006 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/May 1st 2006 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/May 1st 2006 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/
Well no glider can take off on its own. It's got to get airborne somehow. After that, it glides (And apparently in this case that's "glide" as in "fall to Earth almost immediately.")]]>May 1st 2006 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/May 1st 2006 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/
Please stop calling Panasonic Panny. Or Samsung Sammy. Unless they are "making copies"
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And yes a powered glider is an oxymoron, most gliders are 'pulled' (yes using a rope) up by another plane and then glide down.]]>May 1st 2006 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/
The Wright brothers' experiments involved kites and gliders, they were not refered to as airplanes at the time. The first successful powered flight was logged by the Wrights and their Wright Flyer in Kittyhawk, NC. The "flight" lasted 12 seconds, covered a distance of 120 feet, and barely made it more than a few feet off the ground.

I'd imagine, by the pictures here, that the Panasonic glider didn't fair much better.]]>May 1st 2006 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/May 1st 2006 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/May 1st 2006 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/May 1st 2006 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/air-oxyride-100-aa-glider-takes-wing/Texas Institue of Technology
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