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Quick Study

Video: Dragon Flight

Supplemental material for the Quick Study "Dragonfly flight" PHYSICS TODAY, October 2008, page 74.

Z. Jane Wang

This video shows one period of the dragonfly Libellula pulchella’s hovering motion. In real time the motion takes about 1/40 second; this video has been slowed down by a factor of about 100. Note that the fore and hind wings beat out of phase and that each of the four wings executes a feathering motion. [Download video]

 
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