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A4_9 Buffalo Wings

2018 
'Buffalo wings' are a popular type of fried chicken wings. In this paper we examine the difference in size between these wings and the hypothetical wings that an actual buffalo would need in order to be able to fly. Using a fixed wing approximation, we determine that to produce suffcient lift a buffalo would need a pair of wings 31 times larger than those of a chicken, or 31 separate pairs of chicken-sized wings.
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