Show ETERNAL FLYING LYING FISH PHI s lapen I With 11 Differing Views Peculiar Phenomena Two papers on the time eternal flying fish problem have hn e appeared red almost La inn cushy and amid one express widely I diverse divere views says the London Field In the on one published fn In the of the Austrian geological ecological SUI survey y Dr Abel ALel after ee describing the thi various kinds of fossil fossi flying fish concludes that hut neither the the typical flying fIng fish or on the finin gun eun- I ares lUls ever er e use theIr tacit pectoral fins n a as a active tl e organs of or flight On tine the contrary the Initial Impetus I by moans of or which the these e fishes are arc I launched Into Inlo the tho air Ir Is 1 due dine lH n en- cu trel ely Lu-ely to powerful screw like lk movements mo of ot the tall fin in tal fn und and this timis Impetus Is suf ur- ur to car carry them to the end o of or their Journey the wings s acting merely a as parachutes In other othel words the time flight Is precisely similar to lo that of or a flat tat stone when whom thrown up UI so as to 10 Ii from the points where It nun I touches thi tin the water ater till til it I fral rals falls lil In Jim the time second pap paper r published In the he January Januar number of oC th the Annals Animals and Ma- Ma Ia zinc of or Natural History time the author Col Cal ond C C. D D. DUnford Durnford takes tices the precisely I opposite view maintaining on mechanical grounds that the tue theory theor a th the above c mn lila may be called Is la an aa absolute physical Impossibility owing to the tine that thin the lH wing iring surface Is cur too small small fac act in to 10 thin HIP size ster and arid proportion weight of or ih tIme hod flight C to 0 sustaIn th time fIsh its Is long LH This being admitted the time only alt alternative Is hs to p suppose that tha the tho wings are moved mO with an exceedingly rapid wih vibratory vibrator mo mo- ion throughout Ih the whole light flight n h an anti are arc thus after the tho first Cit initial Impetus time the profiling pron power pan Th The author further maintains thai lint the time wing movements which many ninny observers have ha notice mo a 0 flying fish sh touches a 0 wave are when ro not movements de novo but merely et lut such uch merel a T slowing down o of th the continuous rapid vi vi- vi as to lo 1 render thorn them visible to th the eye If It Colonel Durnford's I data dota are s som tine the trustworthy as they sell om lo to i he his his case appears to be he proved The Time next point bowe ho to lo Is whether the muscles which work ascertain ihl pectoral ins fins of or ar the flying fish a art really liable pable of or Imparting f real ca capable ca- ca to 10 them tIme the power or maintaining those or rapid und and vibrations which are the c j. j of the new I thor theory part |