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That's so cool! At 63cm, I wouldn't exactly call it a dragon fly though...A flying squirrel maybe? :D
You must have some weird looking squirrels where you live.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Dunn,_Invisible_Boy
So what I find interesting is a swarm of these suckers. Put cameras on them and send a small swarm of 40-50 into a building. The fun part would be writing the pathfinding code so that they don't hit eachother.
I honestly had no idea such things were possible. Aside from the sheer amazing delight, are there advantages to flapping-wing modes of flight?
That's so cool! At 63cm, I wouldn't exactly call it a dragon fly though...A flying squirrel maybe? :D
Really old dragonfly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meganeura Meganeura is a genus of extinct insects from the Carboniferous period approximately 300 million years ago, which resembled and are related to the present-day dragonflies. With wingspans of up to 65 cm (25.6 in), M. monyi is one of the largest known flying insect species; the Permian Meganeuropsis permiana is another. Meganeura were predatory, and fed on oth…
There was a study where by increasing the amount of oxygen in the air, in just a few generations, insect were gaining as much as 10% in size.