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The animal jumps, it spreads its wings, it vibrates them, but it can't actually take off because the fly is sandwiched between two glass plates.

That idea only came into being 300 years later, and most Islamic scholars see it as the equivalent of people with wings sitting on clouds and strumming harps.

These goliath beetles are wired in their wings.

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

So we looked at the birds, and we tried to make a model that is powerful, ultralight, and it must have excellent aerodynamic qualities that would fly by its own and only by flapping its wings.

So if you go down, you have the large area of propulsion, and if you go up, the wings are not that large, and it is easier to get up.

And you can see that, in a developing society that was beginning to acquire language, not having language would be a like a bird without wings.

Just as wings open up this sphere of air for birds to exploit, language opened up the sphere of cooperation for humans to exploit.

You have people renting their wings in the heavens.

Then once you're on the ground, you fold up the wings, drive it home, park it in your garage.

You can see there the wings folded up just along the side of the plane.

You just push a few buttons in the cockpit, and the wings come out.

Now, bad weather comes in, just land, fold up the wings, drive home.

Just fold up the wings and keep going.

It is purely your body, and the wings become part of the body and vice versa?

So that was one of those cases where you let the wings go, right?

BG: So the wings have their own parachute, and you have your two parachutes.

So it's a basic simple block, but the idea is, I can extrapolate this, I can make it into large formats, I can make it into buildings, bridges, but also airplane wings and shoes.

Because then renewables such as wind and solar come out from the wings, here to center stage.

CA: I'm curious, you started your beautiful sequence on flight with a plane kind of trying to flap its wings and failing horribly, and there haven't been that many planes built since that flap wings.

Here's her wings.

And then the newly mated queens fly off somewhere, drop their wings, dig a hole and go into that hole and start laying eggs.

Starlings, in the area around Edinburgh, in the moors of England, come in something called a murmuration, and the murmuration refers to the murmuring of the wings of the birds, and throughout the day the starlings are out over a 20-mile radius sort of doing their starling thing.

Without this painful fight to break free from the confines of the cocoon, the newly formed butterfly can't strengthen its wings.

So, the wings pump up air in lemonade bottles, which are on top of that.

Now I have carefully cropped this sequence to be exactly the duration of a human eye blink, so in the time that it would take you to blink your eye, the fly has seen this looming predator, estimated its position, initiated a motor pattern to fly it away, beating its wings at 220 times a second as it does so.

Well, in order to fly, just as in a human aircraft, you need wings that can generate sufficient aerodynamic forces, you need an engine sufficient to generate the power required for flight, and you need a controller, and in the first human aircraft, the controller was basically the brain of Orville and Wilbur sitting in the cockpit.

Well, I spent a lot of my early career trying to figure out how insect wings generate enough force to keep the flies in the air.

Well, the problem was in thinking that the insect wings function in the way that aircraft wings work.

And it turns out that the insects flap their wings in a very clever way, at a very high angle of attack that creates a structure at the leading edge of the wing, a little tornado-like structure called a leading edge vortex, and it's that vortex that actually enables the wings to make enough force for the animal to stay in the air.

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