Since Harry Hamlin sent the Golden Owl Bubo off to death at the hands of the Kraken, man has dreamt of replicating the flight of a bird. Well, maybe not, but aerodynamics remain as important to sailors as they do to pilots, so when we heard of the Festo Smartbird, a model of a herring gull designed to test nature’s solution to flight, we just had to check it out – and so should you (and if you have kids, share it with them too)!