Oh. My. Firkin. God.
I heard about this kind of stunt ages ago and couldn't find any videos to prove it! The only difference was I'd heard of it done with a balsa wood plane and four flies spread out along the wings like a tiny B-17 Flying Fortress.
Have a click, you've made my day!
(, Mon 6 Jul 2009, 1:39, Share, Reply)
The concept was printed in
The Journal of Irreproducible Results many years ago.
( www.jir.com )
"The Fly as an Aeronautic Force" by Tim M Sharon, Ph. D. and Richard D. Brewer, Ph.D. (based on work they started in 1949, and the article was reprinted in 1983 in their "Best of JIR"
still, very cool!
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