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Flight of the Bumble Bee Inefficient Sunday, May 10, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Biology   
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Brute force rather than aerodynamic efficiency is the key to bumblebee flight, Oxford University scientists have discovered. Scientists found that bumblebee flight is surprisingly inefficient – aerodynamically-speaking it’s as if the insect is ‘split in half’ as not only do its left and right wings flap independently but the airflow around them never joins up to help it slip through the air more easily. (source: sciencedaily.com)
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