What does that mean for the origin of flapping flight?

An insect's ability to fly is perhaps one of the greatest feats of evolution. Michael Dickinson looks at how a common housefly takes flight with such delicate wings, thanks to a clever flapping motion and flight muscles that are both powerful and nimble. But the secret ingredient the incredible fly brain.

The one final bit of sparkle we'll put in at the very end here is an utterly impractical flight vehicle, which is a little ornithopter wing flapping device that rubber band powered that we'll show you.

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My talk is Flapping Birds and Space Telescopes.

And this is you can see this is a flapping bird.

And here he is, flapping with his ears and very gracefully going up.

They fly, not with rotating components, so they fly only by flapping their wings.

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We're working on projects now even wing flapping things the size of hawk moths DARPA contracts, working with Caltech, UCLA.

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She stopped about 10 feet away from me, and she sat there with this penguin, the penguin's flapping, and she let's it go.

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