Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "The Real Life Dune Ornithopter... it was French!" video.

@smithtorreysmith one being able to read a four syllable word in the right order of syllables when it's the name of the topic of a youtube video one is making is not a high bar.
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when you make a video about ornithopters but still can't say the word in the right order of syllables
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or you're totally wrong and wings actually work worse in air agitated by other wings ahead of them... which is what real life aircraft and racing cars' spoilers show to be the case. 😒 ornithopter wings certainly do need to change pitch or be flexible to change pitch by yielding to air resistance, more on the upstroke, which seems to be one of the things you're suggesting, without that, an ornithopter is entirely hopeless. insects generally fly that way, as do hummingbirds (the latter are the flying animals most easily replicated in simple hovering flight by ornithopters). some birds and I think more so bats fly mostly in a sort of butterfly stroke swimming like motion that involves complex folding of the wings to pull them forward, which would be very difficult to replicate. and many like small songbirds actually use a really strange looking standard flying pattern in which they flap a few strokes to propel up and forward, then tuck their wings in and arc a bit up and then down again like a little torpedo, so they bounce up and down. ai reckon it's probably an adaptation that they're evolved to basically do for fun, while it serves the evolutionary purpose of being more difficult for a surprise attack from an aerial predator like a falcon to hit them.
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