They are hoping that they can create unmanned devices which can move through the air like a dragonfly.
About ten times a year the planes are wheeled out for "Flying Days, " attracting 2, 000 people, with Lowy usually at the stick of a Spitfire or a Dragonfly.
Other images on show include a pygmy seahorse camouflaging itself among coral, a sperm whale investigating the photographer, and a bee-eater bird catching a dragonfly for his mate.
Layers of sound fold one over another, the low beat of a dragonfly's wings joined by the calling of crickets, the clucking of a mother hen with her chicks, and the thrum of a motorcycle passing in the distance.
And imagine trying to swat one of those monster prehistoric insects like a vulture-sized dragonfly.
The German company Festo took the wraps off the BionicOpter, a remote-controlled dragonfly robot that can fly in all directions.
After launching the FireFly probes in 2015, the company seeks to launch a larger craft, named DragonFly, in 2016 which will be able to return between 30 to 60 kgs of material to Earth.
It was not the stiff white dragonfly GlobalFlyer, a delicate construction of carbon fibre with all its interstices filled with fuel, in which in 2005 he had made the first non-stop solo flight round the world.
But Thakoon Panichgul put together a cohesive catwalk of seemingly unrelated modern neoprene, a space-age dandelion print, beaded dragonfly embroidery and wallpaper-inspired florals.
Compare these two entries for dragonfly: "Any of a suborder of odonate insects that are larger and stouter than damselflies, " begins Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
Check out the gallery for pics of both of these fine new additions to the robotic zoo, along with a few images of the RS Media, Dragonfly, and that Roboquad spiderbot we saw yesterday...
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