>>Being a gryphon you should be able to... on a second thought, a
>>gryphons wings a too small for flying.
>Being that a Griffon is a ground-based battlemech weighing on the
>order of ninety tons, there should be no reason for anyone named after
>it to want to fly...

being that a griffon is a legendary beast, half-eagle, half-lion, there shoudl be a reason to ask that