Why don't jumbo jets flap their wings? : flying animals, flying machines, and how they are different / / David E. Alexander.
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 278 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Flying animals and flying machines : birds of a feather?
- Hey buddy, need a lift?
- Power : the primary push
- To turn or not to turn
- A tail of two tails
- Flight instruments
- Dispensing with power : soaring
- Straight up : vertical take-offs and hovering
- Stoop of the falcon : predation and aerial combat
- Biology meets technology head-on : ornithopters and human-powered flight.