> From:          "Excerpts from BEE-L" <[log in to unmask]>
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> From:          "Brock, Alfred L." <[log in to unmask]>
 
> Aerodynamics cannot describe why bees fly, but can describe how they do it. As
> they do fly, there must be some flaw or new question to be asked in their
> somewhere.
 
 
I have recently read an article in 'New Scientist'  that is relevant.
It describes how insects actually manage to fly (supposedly according to
standard aerodynamics it should be impossible).
 
 "Impossible Insects /On a wing and a Vortex",
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/971011/features.html
 
cheers Tony Morgan
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Anthony N Morgan,
Forsteammanuensis
Institutt for Elektroteknikk
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