Humans have wing envy. For thousands of years, we've been dreaming up hare-brained schemes to fly like birds. The ancient Greeks conjured up Icarus and Daedalus, who made wings from bird feathers ...

Daedalus used feathers and wax – and we all know what happened to his son when he flew too close to the sun. Instead, you could try surgery, says Samuel Poore, a reconstructive surgeon at the ...

Daedalus and Icarus ... they escaped using wings fixed to their bodies with wax. Daedalus safely reached Sicily, but Icarus, exulting in his new-found abilities, flew too ...

Imprisoned on the island of Crete with his son Icarus, Daedalus, a skilled inventor, crafts wings of feathers and wax to escape. In his exuberance, Icarus defies Daedalus’s warning not to fly ...

“It is a plane, a totem with wings, or it could be Daedalus or Icarus.” The latter was the wing-bearing offspring in the myth who flew too close to the sun and perished.

All through history, humans have longed to fly like birds. Ancient mythology is full of tales of human flight, like the story of Icarus, whose father Daedalus fashioned wings for the two of them ...

But when Daedalus finally reached land, he was so shattered by his loss that he hung up his wings and never flew again. So maybe Trump will chart his own course. Myths, after all, are just stories ...