[mcshot]

I worked with a student that was doing his doctorate in insect wing beat frequencies. He used the giant bumblebee which aerodynamically shouldn't be able to fly. Turns out they have something like a physiological clutch that engages as they warm up by beating their wings. His idea was to be able to ID flying jobbers by their beat frequency.
No back to the topic :-)

[SamAdams76]

Dragonflies know how to fly good. Mosquitoes, not so good. You can kill them in the air all the time by clapping your hands together. Not so with dragonfly.

Not that you want to kill dragonfly. Dragonfly eats mosquito.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Watching ultra-slow motion videos of insects in flight, I've noticed the oscillations that the critters' body goes through while the wings do their thing.

Propulsion issues aside, just how do these folks intend to stabilize the images which these micro-spy cams would send back?

Not an engineer, simply an inquiring mind here. :)

[Kevmo]

bump for later reading

[SunkenCiv]

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