Actually, the news story is that the Pentagon is now funding research to study how snake flight works aerodynamically. As the lead researcher, Jake Socho says, "One of the things that's different about this flyer is that everything else you can think of, from birds and bats to insects to gliding squirrels to all kinds of engineered flyers, they generally have bilateral symmetry. So their left and their right is the same.... But this animal is different in that it takes its whole body and makes it into a wing and then undulates in the air. So it's not symmetrical from left to right." For complete interview: Sakes Alive! Snakes That Fly!
One day, we may be delivering bombs in some undulating flying vehicle.
Other snakes, of course, fly using more conventional means.
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