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But they can fly

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--> Brute force

--> Flexible wings

--> Complex oscillation

--> Dynamic stall

--> Vortices

--> SCALING: Reynolds number!

The mathematical model

Pinning down the origins

--> John H. McMasters dinner anecdote (aeronautical engineer)

--> 1934 book "Le Vol des Insectes" by French entomologist Antoine Magnan

Bumble bees cannot fly (?)

"First prompted by what is done in aviation, I applied the laws of air resistance to insects, and I arrived, with Mr. Sainte-Laguë, at this conclusion that their flight is impossible."

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

"Aerodinamically, the bumble bee should not be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."

The Aerodynamics of Bumble bees

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