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Letter: What's the buzz?

Published 28 November 2012

From Gavin Lawrence

A while ago you reported that bee flight had finally been modelled, and suggested that this would lead to new designs for aircraft propellers and improved aircraft stability (3 December 2005, p 17). Has this breakthrough found any real life application, such as in wind turbine blade design?

Surbiton, Surrey, UK

Issue no. 2893 published 1 December 2012

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