[Spaceships] Ornithopter Wings no longer TL5+2!

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Originally Posted by Anthony

The benefits of an ornithopter over a conventional airplane is that it has a better loiter mode than a helicopter and a better stall speed than a conventional airplane. The benefit of a conventional airplane is that it's much much cheaper and easier to build, and the advantages just aren't that big, the stall speed just isn't all that valuable.

It is in certain applications, tactical recon for example, where you might want something that can hover and has long loiter times (or is cheaper to fuel). Also ornithopters scale to pretty small platforms, which jet engines don't.