[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by Argitoth:
Dragons do not fly with magic. Their wings are massive enough to make them fly.

First off, this thread is not really the right place for this...

Second, that is SO wrong! Dragons are full of hot air, and rise.

No, seriously, Dragons cannot fly without magic. It is well established that dragons with wings can fly no matter how tiny their wings are, just as winged angels can fly without any musculature for flapping. It's really a surface area to volume problem... start with a dragonfly, expand it from 10cm to 10m in length, and you'll find that its mass increases by 1,000,000x and wing area / muscle cross section only by 10,000x.

If you want you can assume a spherical dragon, just for fun, although that doesn't affect the problem

[ March 04, 2004, 18:16: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]