Maybug in flight: a helicopter airship that does not know aerodynamics
The onset of heat is often marked by the buzzing of insects and the flight of various living creatures. The May beetle wakes up, and often it gets out of its wintering place in April.
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Description of the Maybug
Maybug in flight.
The representative of the Coleoptera family looks very attractive. Khrushchev large, body of noble brown or burgundy shades and covered with hairs.
Gardeners and gardeners do not like this type of beetle. The fact is that larvae eat a huge amount of roots and root crops. There is no culture that a voracious larva would refuse. Deciduous trees, including fruit trees, shrubs and vegetables are at risk.
May beetle structure
Like all beetles, the structure of the beetle is typical. It consists of three parts, segments: head, chest and belly. They have three pairs of legs, elytra and a pair of wings. The elytra are attached from above to the second thoracic segment. Flying wings are transparent and thin - by the third.
But despite this, the cockchafer flies. Although it makes it clumsy and hard.
When the beetle can fly
Chafer.
The flight of the Khrushchev is the subject of study and even special studies. To fly, according to the laws of physics and aerodynamics, its wing area must be larger in relation to body weight. This is called the lift coefficient.
Here, in terms of the size of the beetle, it is less than 1, although a minimum of 2 is required for flight, with a weight of 0,9 g. All data indicate that the flight of the beetle is impossible.
Scientists have noticed that the cockchafer can create lift in an unexplored way.
How the cockchafer flies
With all the apparent impossibility from the point of view of science, Khrushchev can fly 20 kilometers in a day. The maximum flight speed can be 2-3 meters per second. The western cockchafer can fly up to a height of 100 meters.
Maybug before flight: "inflates" the abdomen and opens the wings.
The May beetle begins its flight by inflating its abdomen. Further he:
- Makes the movement of the wing down, thereby making the lifting and pushing force.
- At this moment, air is sucked in in the space between the elytron and the wing.
- At the lowest point, called the dead point, the wing makes a U-turn.
- And when the beetle lifts its wing up, it abruptly displaces the air from under the space under the wings.
- This results in a jet of air that diverges at an angle backwards, but at the same time downwards.
It turns out that with this method of using wings, the beetle uses two flight technologies - flapping and jet. At the same time, the beetle itself does not understand anything in physics.
Interestingly, the a bumblebee, according to the laws of aerodynamics, also cannot fly. But in practice, he actively moves.
Interesting facts about the flight of the cockchafer
In addition to the amazing speed and rather impressive heights that Maybugs can climb, there are also amazing facts that are associated with superpowers.
Khrushchev is only seemingly clumsy. It makes 46 wing movements in one second of its flight.
The beetle loves ultraviolet. He flies and is awake in the morning before sunrise and in the evening after sunset. During the day, when the sky is clear and blue, he rests.
The beetle has a built-in navigator and is well oriented in the area. It is clearly oriented in the direction of flight. The animal will return to its forest if it is taken out of there.
According to the magnetic field of the earth, the animal is oriented in directions. He rests only in the direction from north to south or from west to east.
Conclusion
The unusual airship-helicopter Maybug completely violates the laws of aerodynamics. He can not fly according to scientists, but apparently does not know this.
Using its wings, as well as some tricks, the Maybug flies well, travels long distances and often returns to its homeland.
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