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Why bee fly ? becouse it violate the law of airodynamics?

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body is not proportion to it's wing but it ( fly )

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  1. On the micro scale, the common laws of aerodynamics change.

    This explanation doesn't apply to helicopters, though.  Some choppers are just so ugly that the earth naturally repels them.


  2. Air is a fluid (like a liquid)....'animals' (creatures) that fly need two things....lift and propulsion....like planes.

    Planes have propellers for propulsion, and wings designed to aid in lift.

    Birds have wings designed for lift and they have wings that move so they can essentially row thru the air....almost considered as swimming.

    Bees are very light. Very little mass. Their wings flap at a very high rate, and they also sort of row thru the air, but adjusting their wings in the right ways, just like people do when they swim; changing arm movement and altering body weight....same idea.....simple.

  3. The combined bouyancy in air with the lift from it's vibrating wings makes it NOT violate airodynamics.   If a bee is not propelled, it can't fly!

    Trust me, if it flys...it does not violate aerodynamics!

  4. The 'violates the law of aerodynamics' is only an urban legend. It resulted from applying a simplified linear treatment of oscillating airfoils to the insects' flight, ignoring the effect of dynamic stall.

  5. No, it doesn't.  Someone did a calculation wrong and then made a big deal out of it (not the part about getting it wrong the first time though).  

    http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_...

  6. Bees are blissfully unaware of the laws of physics.

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