>I found it interesting in my reading that insect flight research was used
to help in the design of the newest generation of fighter aircraft.
Hello
Here is an article I dug up in the
Historical Honeybee Articles site,
which may help with your talk.
It reveals that bees were being
looked at to help design the
newest generation of fighter
aircraft back in 1918, -during
WW I, and also that Orville
Wright was studying the bees
flight.
Also included, information that
the first reporter of the Wright
Brothers historic flights was a
beekeeper named A. I. Root,
who also was first to publish
the account in Gleanings in Bee
Culture, March 1904
Also included, for fun, a humorous
article about bees and aircraft,
from the same period.
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Files > 18) Bees and War
The Renwick Times
Thursday, May 02, 1918 Renwick, Iowa
Bee And Air Supremacy.
The Common honey bee may aid in
giving America full air supremacy.
Orville Wright, so we are informed by
newspaper reports, has been studying
the honey bee's flying system and his
flying paraphernalia, says Peoria Journal.
Wright had previously studied
birds and bats in order to help him
work out some satisfactory system of
air navigation and now, if the stories
are to be believed, the bee is under his
microscope. Wright might have picked
out the butterfly, the moth, the house
fly or the gnat as a flying model. He
might have selected some bird, as did
the French airplane developers. He
might have chosen the hawk, as did
some of the German airplane students.
But he selected the bee. And as he is
working on war models perhaps he did
a wise thing -because the bee is not
only a producer, a good flier, a common
sense being, and antifuss creature
and a quiet brute, but he has one of
the best fighting weapons known. May
Orville Wright produce airplanes that
will swarm like bees, fly like bees,
tumble like bees, tumble ever in the
air without falling -like bees, and that
will have a practical business end for
fighting. Behold the bee! He may
help us win the war.
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* The first reporter of the Wright
Brothers historic flights was A. I.
Root, who also was first to publish
the account in Gleanings in Bee
Culture, March 1904
Source:
Wright Brothers Flying Machine
The First Reporter
Nova - 2003
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wright/reporter.html
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La Crosse Tribune And Leader-Press
October, 6, 1918 La Crosse, Wisconsin
Misrepresenting a Bee
Our officers and men still experience difficulties
with the language at the front. Recently an
English officer, seeing a swarm of bees settled
near his billet, rushed to adjacent cottages to
inform the resident. But explain verbally he
could not. So taking paper and pencil, he drew
a rough sketch of a hive, then waggled his fingers
in what he thought the correct winglike way. It
was a failure, so he sketched a number of bees,
and buzzed a beesome buzz. Thereupon the
cottagers, together with one consent, bolted
to their dugouts, believing that he meant
hostile aircraft overhead. -London Chronicle.
Best Wishes,
Joe Waggle
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalHoneybeeArticles
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