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Flies act like fighter jets
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When scared, fruit flies bank the same way fighter jets do, tilting and rolling through the air, but they do it quicker than the blink of an eye, US researchers said on Thursday.
While they normally beat their wings 200 times a second, if threatened they could reorient themselves in a single wing beat, and then speed away.
"The brain of the fly performs a very sophisticated calculation, in a very short amount of time, to determine where the danger lies and exactly how to bank for the best escape, doing something different if the threat is to the side, straight ahead or behind," Dickinson said.
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