Cornell's flawed re-enactment

A point worth revisiting: Cornell's Luneau video re-enactment (using wooden models) is a critical part of this story, and I think this re-enactment was fatally flawed.

In an Arkansas Times article referenced here, we are told that in early 2005, Team Elvis was "edgy" and Martjan Lammertink was "growing increasingly skeptical". After the re-enactment "...the team was reassured. The bird Luneau filmed was no pileated."

Here is a picture showing the wooden models (the picture's caption is incorrect).

The fatal flaw is that the model's wings are quite boardlike--fixed in shape and two-dimensional. An actual Pileated's wings are flexible in three dimensions, and within each flap, they drastically change shape.

Note the very different wing shapes in the first two pictures here.

Because of this flaw, an out-of-focus video of the Pileated model can't be usefully compared to the actual bird in the Luneau video.