Why Engineers Thought Bees 'CAN'T FLY' for 70 Years

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This video shows how bees fly. Why bees should NOT be able to fly. Bees don't fly like birds. How bees fly like we swim. Antoine Magnan originally calculated that bees could not fly because he presumed they fly like birds. But they do not.

[notusneo]

"According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible."

[erikjrn]

Well, nobody thought that bumble bees can't fly. In fact, everyone knew very well that they do fly, and therefore can fly. "Bumble bees can't fly" was just a humorous way of saying "we have no idea how they do it; our calculations say they shouldn't".

[BomBoyzhiphop]

Birds are like Planes and Bees are like Helicopters 😅

Fast-forward: Lol a whole Information Warfare is going on below ⬇️ 🤨😂

[H.u.m.a.n.]

"bees don't fly like birds, they fly like bees."
Hmm yes this floor here is made out of floor

[Louis-qsss]

So to sum it up, they compared a bee-wing to a bird-wing rather than comparing it to another insect’s wing to work out their maths *pacepalm*

[rudyberkvens-be]

Bird wings also generate lift during the upstroke. They only create thrust during the downstroke, but lift is more or less continuous.

[jesarablack]

Interestingly, birds have been found to Also produce lift on their upstroke, it is just far less (though certain types of birds can generate more than others, for example hummingbirds rotate the shoulder far enough to get far more lift on the upstroke using the backs of their wings)

[amberv]

Magnan: bumblebees are incapable of flight
The bumblebee flying back home: 🪂

[ariesstar]

"the bumblebee..."
Proceeds to show honey bee😂

[bepispaul]

according to all known laws of aviation

[matthewhunter]

“Bees can’t fly”
“Why”
“We’ll according to all known laws of Avia-“

[KINGFAROOQ]

Wait, who thought a bee that flies is incapable of flight while studying its lift generated during what? 70 years?

[sockomo]

Honestly imagine seeing a bee fly and just going “these things are incapable of flight.”

[DaveMiller]

It wasn't that people said that bees can't fly, it was that they said that bees shouldn't be able to fly.

[badhombre]

Interesting, but do you know why moths fly with their legs far apart?

[UrossiAeon]

And also the air is thicker when you’re “bug sized” so they’re actually ‘paddling’ rather than just flying

[anorangewithacapybaraunder]

So they saw a bee flying and came to the conclusion ‘no. This can’t be. Bees can’t fly’

[antigrav]

Leading edge of bee wings has an attached vortex throughout its stroke cycle to create low pressure area for lift. If one studies the kinematics of bee wing motion, there is the possibility that the wing's mass also generates an inertial force vector that also aids in lift, by which the downward momentum of the wing mass at the endpoint of each cycle is absorbed aerodynamically thus allowing rectification of any upward component of inertial force, ie inertial propulsion or mechanical antigravity. Rough calcs of the inertial forces from the wing's mass do exceed the weight of the insects's body.

[-FreeMiner-]

Bees can't fly!

Me: there's literally one right there flying

IMPOSSIBLE!

[amandao]

bumble bees wings do you up and down, and arent attached to the muscles that flap their wings, so then can still buzz even without their wings. their wings snap apart so violently that it causes a low pressure bubble of sorts that keeps them up.