Flight Is Central to Dinotopia

Dinotopia Origins, Part 6

Dreams of flying played a big part in Dinotopia because I was obsessed with flying machines in my younger years.

Before I graduated high school I had built and flown: radio-controlled gliders, hot air balloons, a variety of paper gliders, rubber-band powered balsa models, a welded steel glider that “flew” underwater, model rockets, hot air ballooons, ris…