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Insect s are the only group of Invertebrate s to have evolved Powered Flight . Over the past several million years, flying insects have evolved some remarkable Flight characteristics and abilities, superior in many ways to anything created by mankind. Even our understanding of the Aerodynamics of flexible, flapping Wings and how insects fly is imperfect. The most obvious application of this research is the engineering of low Reynolds Number , extremely small Micro Air Vehicle s.


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