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1954
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13 AUGUST 1954 FLIGHT ; 11 p oblems of flight There are nearly as many different reasons for specially adapted for this special task.) folding wings as there are different kinds of beetle As in the crowded turmoil of the insect world, so — and beetles, with their 250,000 species, are the in the tight space of an aircraft carrier. Man has largest order in the animal kingdom. Their habits taken yet another leaf out of Nature's great book- vary widely. Some no longer fly; some never did. has found to yet another of his problems another Those that do have heavier bodies than any other time-honoured answer. flymg insect, because of their thick plates of Pilots whose planes do not need the refinement of protective armour. (Some also have enormous folding wings—because they land them at any of jaws; those of the male stag-beetle illustrated may Britain's airfields—value the excellent and helpful be for fighting other males during the mating service of the Shell and BP Aviation Service. SHELL and BP AVIATION SERVICE Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd., Shell-Mex House, Strand, London, W.C3. Distributors in the United Kingdom for the Shell, Anglo-Iranian and Eagle Groups. c
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