Interesting Tidbits about Flies!

To celebrate our little fly friends who are currently piloting the blimps in David Bowen's Soft Chaos we decided to share some interesting facts about them:

• The average house fly lives on average 30 days.

• A flies wings beat 200 times per second.

• Flies don't grow. They are born full size.

• Flies have 4000 lenses in each eye.

• Flies jump up and backwards when taking off.

• Average speed of a fly in flight is 4.5 m.p.h.

• Flies smell with their antennae.

So now you know a little more about flies...they will be with SooVAC till January 2nd.