Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1919 — How Flying-Fish Fly. [ARTICLE]

How Flying-Fish Fly.

The popular notion that flying-fish beat their “wings” is a mistake, if one Is to rely upon the results of studies of these fish by an authority, Capt, Barrett Hamilton. It appears that the wings are not *, true organs of flight, but rather play the part of a parachute or an airplane. The whole motM power is supplied by the tall, which acts a$ a propeller, and the vibration or quivering of the wings in the air currents and their occasional shift .of Incline* tion ’are not phenomena connected .with the propulsion of the fish in its aerial flights. '