Virgin Galactic, billionaire Richard Branson's proposed ferry for taking wealthy tourists to the edge of space, said it had fixed the feather-unlocking problem cited by the NTSB and would press on with its program.
To the relief of all, the stork turned out to be bearing nothing but a wildlife tracker, apparently fixed to its feathers by French scientists researching birds' migratory paths.
When the train is up, nothing appears of the bird before but its head and neck; but this would not be the case were those long feathers fixed only in the rump, as may be seen by the turkey-cock when in a strutting attitude.
Battledore and shuttlecock, children's game played by two persons using small rackets called battledores, which are made of parchment, plastic, or rows of gut or nylon stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks, made of a base of some light material, such as cork, with trimmed feathers fixed around the top.
They fought in quincunx formation, usually carrying scuta, large rectangular shields, and bronze helmets, often with a number of feathers fixed onto the top to increase stature.
They fought as hoplites, usually carrying clipei, large round Greek shields, and bronze helmets, often with a number of feathers fixed onto the top to increase stature.
Feather fans in which feathers were fixed radially at one end of the handle are illustrated in Pharaonic Egyptian reliefs.
Relative expression of separate genes relative to Clock was analysed with mixed-effects models incorporating sample, plate and gene identity as random factors and morph and body region of the feather as fixed factors.
For the electron microscopic examination, flesh contour feathers were fixed in 3% glutaraldehyde in 0.1 M phosphate buffer, postfixed in 1% osmium tetroxide, and embedded in epoxy resin.
