Indeed - having a plane light enough such that a motor off "determalizing" approach to emergency landing would be nice.

The little monsters don't contradict any ideas of the aerodynamic world when you include the Reynolds number effects. Things that fly range from a little flying bug a fraction of an inch long to a mega monster size airplane. To make things easy we slice up the range of Reynold's numbers into big and medium and do a lot of studying there because that is were the money is to be made. There is no money in the study of the real small Rn so not much gets done and little study is performed so knowing how some real small things fly is hard to describe. But in reality there is a smooth variation from very low to very high. Understanding that variation is necessary to analyze anything that flys including our beloved foamys.