Hummingbird Aerodynamics- High Speed Video - Smarter Every Day 27
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Hey it's me Destin. So to fly slow is one of the more difficult things to do because you don't have as much airflow over your control surfaces. To fly at zero air velocity is the hardest thing to do of all. Over the past weekend I've been making observations of hummingbird flight in my back yard. So let's look at my observations and then we'll come back, and we'll look at the science of how hummingbirds fly. You're getting Smarter Every Day. [music] So what does olive oil and lasers have in common. Hummingbirds obviously. Dr Doug Warrick at Oregon State University and Dr Brett Tobalske at University of Montana have been studying hummingbirds by using a nozzle to spray olive oil in the air ...
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Hey it's me Destin. So to fly slow is one of the more difficult things to do because you don't have as much airflow over your control surfaces. To fly at zero air velocity is the hardest thing to do of all. Over the past weekend I've been making observations of hummingbird flight in my back yard. So let's look at my observations and then we'll come back, and we'll look at the science of how hummingbirds fly. You're getting Smarter Every Day. [music] So what does olive oil and lasers have in common. Hummingbirds obviously. Dr Doug Warrick at Oregon State University and Dr Brett Tobalske at University of Montana have been studying hummingbirds by using a nozzle to spray olive oil in the air ...
