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Building a polyester wing and constucting stainless steel struts to make it flap were hard enough, but would the flapping wings actually generate thrust? Fearing and his team attached the wing and a thorax to a test stand boom, like the arm of a record player, and set the wing flapping at 150 times a second. After
all the hard work, everyone was thrilled to see the wing generate
enough force to move the boom horizontally. Now the challenge is
to attach two of them to the body of the robotic fly and get them
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