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Make the aircraft by glueing the sliver of wood - the wing - across the remaining part of the matchstick - the fuselage. If you want, you can use little scraps to make a tail section. Or you can use a couple of thin slices of balsa to make a huge wing, one that will carry maybe twenty engines. Think of lift, think of thrust, think of innovation without the benefit of an industrial policy.
In a few seconds the flies will be chilled out completely. For example, the flies will be dead flies if you freeze them too long. It takes longer to make them comatose, but they have a higher recovery rate than the ones you leave in the freezer next to the burritos.
It should fly like a charm, and, far from being cruel to the flies, you'll be teaching them a new and valuable thing, one that brings us to the virtue of this exercise. For we see that while flies think a lot alike, have a great deal in common, share many of the same hopes and dreams, they never act in concert, as a team, with regard for the worth of other, neighboring flies until forced to by grim circumstance - as, for example, when they are harnessed to fly and either first experience the exhilaration of high-altitude cooperation or die. Redeemed by such a critical choice, they'll soar like a glider, race like a Stealth, and, when overflying a barnyard or kennel, turn into a wicked-awesome dive bomber.
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