Martin Gregorie, a designer of Free Flight gliders, built a replica of the Saqqara Bird made of balsa wood. After testing the replica, Martin Gregorie concluded that: "…the Saqqara Bird never flew. It is totally unstable without a tailplane… Even after a tailplane was fitted the glide performance was disappointing." He added that "the Saqqara Bird was probably made as a child's toy or a weather vane."