Re: Bugs and flight was Re: Questions regarding NAC ground units, was SG IF morale

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:14:49PM -0500, Glenn M Wilson wrote:
>The Bumble bee supposedly was 'proven' by an engineer to be incapable
of
>flight until another (smarter) Engineer examined the Bumble bee not as
an
>airplane but a 'helicopter'  model.  At least that is the urban myth I
>was taught... <grin> 

Pretty much - if you try to analyse it as a fixed-wing vehicle, it
doesn't work. Then again, anyone who's _seen_ a bumblebee could tell you
it isn't a fixed-wing vehicle...