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Even though I normally love archaic, unnecessary or unusual engineer, Flying Gate's are just all over the place, to many mismatched angles to look good.
"The word 'gate' may well have been adopted because it opened up a new concept on design at that time" - Or because they look like a badly thrown together gate.