Fast mosquito

satumare · 8th Jun 2005, 01:58

Silly Question...............

Flying at M 0.84 from a tropical country,westbound.......pick-up a few mosquito during transit. They are buzzing around in the cockpit.

Now,how fast are the mossies flapping their tiny wings and at what speed????

16 blades · 8th Jun 2005, 02:13

It depends entirely on your frame of reference.

16B

Onan the Clumsy · 8th Jun 2005, 03:39

This is like the Hiesenberg Uncertainty Principle. You can know how fast, or at what speed, but not both.

jabberwok · 8th Jun 2005, 04:39

What speed is the air going that you breathe in?

teeteringhead · 8th Jun 2005, 07:32

Heisenberg was stopped by a copper for speeding ....

PC: Excuse me sir, do you know how fast you were going?
H: No, but I know exactly where I was!

.... well, how many quantum physics jokes do you know??

tony draper · 8th Jun 2005, 07:53

Here yer go chaps

Mosquitoes weigh only about 2 to 2.5 mg (0.03 to 0.04 grain). They can fly at about 1.5 to 2.5 km/h (0.9 to 1.6 mph).

Onan the Clumsy · 8th Jun 2005, 11:43

but the sound of their wings can reach over 100 decibels

Rushton · 8th Jun 2005, 11:49

Quote:

Now,how fast are the mossies flapping their tiny wings and at what speed????

Probably the same speed as the A380 wings oscillate

Blacksheep · 9th Jun 2005, 09:10

If you picked them up on the outside of your windscreen they would be flying at exactly the same speed as your aircraft and they wouldn't be flapping their wings.

Ultralights · 9th Jun 2005, 10:08

i dont know about mozzies, but flies, no longer fly (and no longer live) above 8000 Ft in an unpressurised aircraft!

Solid Rust Twotter · 9th Jun 2005, 11:32

Ultralights

Those would be the lisping foppish limpwristed Oz flies.

African flies continue operating and drawing blood well above 8000'.

One has had occasion to watch a nurse whacking flies around a medevac patient with gunshot wounds at FL 120.

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