Chapter 25 trapeze (3)

The problem is that the trapeze's wings have a tendency to suddenly and completely fail.Gia and all aircraft engineers and medical researchers on other planes were unable to find the cause of this failure.There was nothing wrong with the wings themselves, they must have failed for some as-yet-undiscovered physical or mental cause, an incompatibility of the wings with the rest of the body. Unfortunately, there are no symptoms before the wings fail, so there is no way to predict whether the wings will fail or not. A flying man who has been flying every day since he was an adult took off one morning without any problems, and after reaching a certain altitude, suddenly, he found that his wings no longer obeyed his commands—they covered his sides tremblingly, Can't move at all.So, he fell from the sky like a stone.According to medical papers, wing failure occurs about one in twenty times a trapezeman flies.But the fliers I spoke to generally agreed that the odds were far lower, noting that some have been flying every day for decades.

But they don't want to talk to me about it, or they don't want to talk to anyone about it.They don't seem to be superstitious about the way to prevent wing failure, but treat it as a completely random phenomenon.Wing failure can happen on the first flight, or it can happen on the thousandth flight.No cause has been found so far - genetics, age, experience, fatigue, diet, emotions, physical condition, none of these conditions can be the cause of the wing failure.Every time a trapeze flies, the probability of a wing failure is exactly the same. Some people will survive after falling from the sky.They will not fall again because they can no longer fly.Once the wings fail, they are of no use thereafter.Like huge, heavy feathered capes, they drag behind their masters, immobile.

An outsider might ask why trapezemen don't carry parachutes to avoid being killed by wing failure.No doubt they can.This is a question of temperament.Winged people who choose to fly are willing to take the risk of their wings failing, and those who don't want to take the risk don't choose to fly. Or it could be said that those who think wing failure is a risk don't fly, and those who fly don't think it's a risk.Amputation of the wings would inevitably result in the flying man's death, and amputation of any part of the wings would cause unbearable and incurable pain.So trapezemen who fall from the sky and winged men who choose not to fly must drag their wings all their lives, whether they walk the streets or go up and down the stairs.Their altered bone structure is not suitable for life on the ground.They tire quickly when walking and are prone to bone fractures and muscle injuries.Winged men who don't fly generally don't live past the age of sixty.Those who choose to fly face the risk of dying every time they take off.However, some people live to be eighty years old and still fly.

The image of the trapeze taking off is a very nice sight.When I see these masters of the air flapping their wings like pelicans and swans, it seems to me that man is not so clumsy as I thought.Of course, it is easiest to take off from a high place, but if there is no such convenient condition, they only need to run up to 20 to 25 meters, and at the same time wave their wings up and down. The reaction force, the person flies up, and then goes straight to the sky—maybe he will circle back, smile and wave goodbye to the person with the head up and see him off, and then he will fly to the eaves or into the distance among the mountains.When they fly, their legs are close together and their bodies are slightly tilted backwards, with the feathers on the back of their calves and on their heels acting like an eagle's tail for direction control.

Their arms have no direct connection to their wings—the winged gia are a six-limbed creature—so their hands can be placed at their sides to reduce air resistance and increase speed.During a less time-critical flight, their hands can do anything—scratch their heads, peel fruit, draw a bird's-eye view, hold a baby.I've only seen it with a baby once, and I was terrified.I had several conversations with a Wingedian named Aditya.Here's a transcript of the conversation, transcribed with his permission: Oh yeah, when I first found out - when that just happened to me, you know - I was stunned.too terrifying!I can't believe it at all.I used to be pretty sure that wouldn't happen to me.You know, when we were kids, we used to joke that so-and-so would "grow wings," or "he's going to fly someday." But, me?I grow wings?

That is absolutely not going to happen.So when I started getting headaches, toothaches, backaches, I kept telling myself it was a caries, an infection, a cyst...but by the time it really started, I couldn't even fool myself.That's really scary.I don't really remember much about that time.It feels bad and hurts.At first it was like there were some knives going up and down my back and a claw was clawing at my spine.Then the pain spread all over my body: arms, legs, fingers, face... I was too weak to stand up.I rolled out of bed, hit the floor, and couldn't get up again.I lay there and called my mother, "Mom! Mom, come on!" She fell asleep.