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

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 09:54:45 +0000 Roger Burton West 
<roger@firedrake.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:14:49PM -0500, Glenn M Wilson wrote:
>> The Bumblebee 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... <

References, citations, etc., please! I want to see the "proof" of this. 
Frankly, after years of fruitless searching, I'm of the opinion that 
there never was such an analysis, and the whole thing was thought up by 
neo-Luddites to discredit "scientists" (Glenn's mention of engineers  
is the first time I've heard of the profession being involved in this).

Phil
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