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  • To study the flight control behavior of fruit flies, Dickinson and his researchers have come up with something even more bizarre than RoboFly. They have built a virtual reality flight simulator for fruit flies in an upstairs lab. A tiny fly is glued to a probe positioned in an electronic arena of hundreds of flashing LEDs that can also measure its wing motion and flight forces. By altering its wing motion, the fly itself can change the display of the moving electronic panorama, tricking the fly into "thinking" it is really flying through the air. The amplified humming of the fruit fly as it buzzes through its imaginary flight surrounded by computers in the darkened lab is quite bizarre.
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  • To study the flight control behavior of fruit flies, a tiny fly is glued to a probe positioned in an electronic arena of hundreds of flashing LEDs that can also measure its wing motion and flight forces. By altering its wing motion, the fly itself can change the display of the moving electronic panorama, tricking the fly into "thinking" it is really flying through the air. The amplified humming of the fruit fly as it buzzes through its imaginary flight surrounded by computers in the darkened lab is quite bizarre. UC Berkeley, CA, USA.
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  • In the same building as Robert Full at UC Berkeley is Michael Dickinson, whose email address "FlymanD" is revealing. Dickinson is a biologist specializing in the study of the aerodynamics of flapping flight. His bizarre studies of fruit fly flight are fascinating. In one small room sits a Plexiglas tank filled with two metric tons of mineral oil. Suspended in the oil are giant mechanical models of fruit fly wings, RoboFly. Because the tiny movements of the wings of a real fruit fly displace air on such a small scale that the air acts sticky, RoboFly enables Dickinson to study similar forces when the giant wings are flapping in oil.
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  • Michael Dickinson of the University of California at Berkeley's email address is revealing: FlymanD. Dickinson is a biologist specializing in the study of the aerodynamics of flapping flight. His studies of fruit fly flight are fascinating. In one small room sits a Plexiglas tank filled with two metric tons of mineral oil. Suspended in the oil are giant mechanical models of fruit fly wings: RoboFly.  RoboFly enables Dickinson to study similar forces when the giant wings are flapping in oil. Thousands of tiny bubbles that act as visual tracers are forced into the oil from an air compressor making all the swirling turbulence visible. The device has been used to identify the unusual aerodynamic mechanisms that insects use to fly and maneuver. UC Berkeley, CA, USA.
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  • Ham dinner on an Icelandair flight.
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  • Aerospace engineer Scott Newbern programs the flight computer in the Gryphon, one of the prototypes in the fleet of small robot jets under development at AeroVironment, a company founded in 1971 by inventor Paul MacCready. AeroVironment  , Simi Valley, California. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 156-157.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • AeroVironment engineer Matt Keennon repairs an Ornothopter; a balsa wood model that flies by flapping its four wings with energy generated from the untwisting of a twisted rubber band. In the background hang a few of the numerous models found in the company's design center. Robo sapiens Project.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA.
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  • Tourists feedin gthe seagulls on the Ferry from Gudvagen to Flam along the Naeroyfjord, a Unesco World Heritage Site.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • State Farm Insurance Balloon. Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Creamland Dairy Cow. Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Creamland Dairy Cow. Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Creamland Dairy Cow. Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Creamland Dairy Cow. Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • New York artist Spencer Tunick's production of nudes lying on the desert at the Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Tunick is on a ladder taking photos as a Cessna plane flies overhead. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Birds gather on power lines in Pescadero, California. USA.
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  • Aerial photograph of flooded rice fields in central valley California. A biplane is seeding rice by Air. Near Richvale, California.
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  • Aerial photograph of California Aqueduct that carries water to southern California from Northern California. Near Coalingua.
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  • Aerial of John Harris flying his Cessna over his fields where workers are harvesting lettuce at Harris Farms in San Joaquin Valley, California. Two large trucks pull conveyors with farm workers sitting low to the ground, enabling them to cut the lettuce as workers on the trucks pack it in crates as they move through the fields, harvesting 16 rows at a time. USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields.
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  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA.  Laser leveled fields. Seeding by airplane.
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  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields. Seeding by airplane.
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  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields.
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  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice by air in Richvale, California, USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying wine grape vineyards with sulphur in Napa Valley, California, USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Dusting wine grape vineyards with sulphur in Sonoma, California, USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying wine grape vineyards with pesticides in Napa, California, USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying wine grape vineyards with pesticides in Sonoma, California, USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fungicide on fields of marigolds grown for seed.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seeds with pesticides.
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  • Crop dusting. After spraying cotton in Kern County, California, USA, washing out the airplane's hopper at the end of day.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying pesticides on agricultural crops in California.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
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  • The small village of Bre above Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano."Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Bagan, Myanmar, also knows as Burma
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  • Hot air balloons at dawn in Bagan, Myanmar, also known as Burma. The Bagan (also spelled Pagan) Plain on the banks of Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar, is the largest area of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world. More than 2,200 remain today, many dating from the 11th and 12 centuries.
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  • flying into Yangon, (Rangoon), Myanmar, (Burma)
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  • Ultra-light plane flying over the grape vineyards and hayfields of the Barossa Valley. South Australia.
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  • Aerial photograph of flooded rice fields in central valley California. A biplane is seeding rice by Air. Near Richvale, California.
    USA_CA_10_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA.  Laser leveled fields. Seeding by airplane.
    USA_AG_CRPD_32_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields. Seeding by airplane.
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  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields.
    USA_AG_CRPD_28_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying pesticides on agricultural crops in California. The worker holding the flag (known as a "flagger") marks the row where the duster needs to spray next. Flagman at the end of rice field, with seeder plane approaching.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Dusting wine grape vineyards with sulphur in Sonoma, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_20_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying wine grape vineyards with sulphur in Napa Valley, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_21_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying wine grape vineyards with pesticides in Sonoma, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_18_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fungicide on fields of marigolds grown for seed.
    USA_AG_CRPD_17_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_15_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_14_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seeds with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_12_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. After spraying cotton in Kern County, California, USA, washing out the airplane's hopper at the end of day.
    USA_AG_CRPD_10_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_07_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA..
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
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  • Stork flying back to nest with building material for nest, Avila, Spain.
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  • Glenn Spacht, a X-29 test pilot at the Paris Air Show, at Le Bourget Airport, France. Held every other year, the event is one of the world's biggest international trade fairs for the aerospace business. Rolls-Royce makes airplane engines.
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  • Professor Ron Fearing and his students at the University of California at Berkeley are using Dickinson's information to build a micromechanical fly. In the photo a 30% larger than final size scale mockup of the Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI) is compared with its inspiration, the blow fly Calliphora erythrocephala. Researchers expect the stainless steel MFI to be flying in the lab by 2003. The main problem to be overcome in such a small device is an adequate power supply.
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  • Designed as a miniature reconnaissance airplane capable of flying at 40 mph for up to 20 minutes, AeroVironment is building the tiny Black Widow, which ultimately will be able to fly for an hour?or should be, if engineers can figure out how to pack more energy into its batteries. Zipping along at treetop level, the 15-cm-long, 58-gram Black Widow could spot details missed by even the sharpest satellite cameras. AeroVironment, Simi Valley, California. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 158 bottom..
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  • Deep in the basement of the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, Omead Amidi adjusts the wing of the robot helicopter he is designing with Takeo Kanade, a Carnegie Mellon researcher who specializes in robotic vision. Several smaller versions of the project sit in his workshop. Pittsburgh, PA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 160-161.
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  • Tourists feedin gthe seagulls on the Ferry from Gudvagen to Flam along the Naeroyfjord, a Unesco World Heritage Site.
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  • Seagull flying alongside the  ferry from Gudvagen to Flam along the Naeroyfjord, a Unesco World Heritage Site.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Creamland Dairy Cow. Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
    USA_101003_136_x.jpg
  • Creamland Dairy Cow. Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
    USA_101003_041_x.jpg
  • Aerial photograph of flooded rice fields in central valley California. A biplane is seeding rice by Air. Near Richvale, California.
    USA_CA_09_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields. Seeding by airplane.
    USA_AG_CRPD_31_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields.
    USA_AG_CRPD_29_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying pesticides on agricultural crops in California.  The worker holding the flag (known as a "flagger") marks the row where the duster needs to spray next. Flagman at the end of rice field, with seeder plane approaching.
    USA_AG_CRPD_27_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_16_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
    USA_AG_CRPD_14_xs.jpg
  • Crop dusting. Spraying cotton prior to harvest with defoliant (Paraquat) in Kern County, California, USA.
    USA_AG_CRPD_06_xs.jpg
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