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It probably says something about my schooling, let alone my age, that when you say to me “Flight of Icarus” my first thought is Iron Maiden.

Icarus, as you probably know, was the son of the craftsman Daedalus. In a stunning feat of engineering, Daedalus made his son and himself wings to escape from the island of Crete. Mythology is silent on whether Daedalus studied aerodynamics etc., but we are forced to conclude he was at least a very competent engineer, if not an actual scientist. Perhaps ‘experimental philosopher’ would be an appropriate title. Anyway, Daedalus hypothesized that the two of them should fly neither too low