Monday, May 4, 2015

What Happens When You Put a Hummingbird in a Wind Tunnel?

I was looking for something else a Youtube when I found this video. I found it sort of fascinating because no bird flies like a hummingbird. They fly according to a much different principle than most birds do.

What Happens When You Put a Hummingbird in a Wind Tunnel? | Deep Look

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Scientists have used a high-speed camera to film hummingbirds' aerial acrobatics at 1000 frames per second. They can see ...
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    I grabbed more of the page than I wanted to but left this one so I could look at later. I don't  think I'm young enough or ballzy enough to do Wingsuit flying but once I get proficient on motorized paragliders I'll see what my actual skillset is in ultralight type of aircraft. I was pretty good at flying planes just like my Uncle Tommy who was (or is) a military test pilot here for the U.S in Early World war II. My favorite true story of Tommy was: He was watching biplanes take off and land during the late 1930s when a man landed his plane and asked Tommy if he would like to fly it. Tommy took off the plane and landed it in a perfect 3 point landing. The man asked Tommy where he had learned to fly. Tommy said, "That's the first time I ever flew a plane." That was my Uncle Tommy. He was a natural pilot. and a natural at anything mechanic. I think a way to say it was he was a mechanical intuitive genius with the perfect coordination to back it up. Sometimes I'm like this too.

    For example, I can ask a plane (passenger plane ) if it is going to crash soon(they always seem to know). And the plane will say telepathically, "it might get rough but you will survive the flight" and then I will get on the plane expecting roughness which then always happens just like the plane said.

    One time my wife and I and 2 1/2 year old daughter had attended my father in law's 80th birthday party at Thunderbird Country Club in the Palm Springs area. I asked the plane for the return flight to San Jose what was up. The plane said, "It will get very rough but no one will die!" So, I knew we would all survive.

    So, as we were in a landing pattern for San Jose I looked out the right window and saw a plane on our right wing. I told the man across the isle, "This isn't good we've got a plane on our right wing." He said, "We've got a plane on our left wing too." This made me feel very uncomfortable as a small plane pilot myself. Suddenly the plane went straight up on it's tail. Everyone on the plane was screaming and throwing up because it was such a jolt to be flying straight up all of a sudden. My wife said, "Fred. Are we going to die?" I said, "NO. The plane told me about this. we aren't going to die." My daughter who was 2 1/2 was going "Whoopie! Whoopie! Whoopie" because she thought this was great fun. which was kind of humorous with people screaming and throwing up all around us.

    What had actually happened was a small plane that was in the wrong airspace had come up into our airspace and had almost caused us to crash into it and to fall out of the sky. So, the pilot did the only thing he had left which was to fly straight up into the sky to avoid a collision.

    There were 48 members of the same companies executive branch on the same plane and I heard the CEO say, "We will never all fly on the same plane ever again. We almost lost the whole company to this plane crashing." 

    Best of Wingsuit Proximity Flying 2013

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    ALL RIGHTS GO TO RIGHTFUL OWNERS This is a collection of the top wingsuit proximity flying in 2013 that I could find I ...
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