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Author Alexander, David E., 1955- author.

Title Why don't jumbo jets flap their wings? : flying animals, flying machines, and how they are different / David E. Alexander
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 278 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary Why Don't Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings? offers a fascinating explanation of how nature and human engineers each arrived at powered flight. What emerges is a highly readable account of two very different approaches to solving the same fundamental problems of moving through the air, including lift, thrust, turning, and landing. The book traces the evolutionary process of animal flight-in birds, bats, and insects-over millions of years and compares it to the directed efforts of human beings to create the aircraft over the course of a single century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-267) and index
Notes English
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Subject Aeronautics -- Popular works
Animal flight -- Popular works
Flying-machines -- Popular works
Airplanes -- Popular works
Birds -- Flight -- Popular works
Aerodynamics -- Popular works
Flight -- Popular works
Airplanes -- Wings -- Popular works
Lift (Aerodynamics)
Vertically rising aircraft -- Aerodynamics -- Popular works
TRANSPORTATION -- Aviation -- General.
SCIENCE -- General.
Aerodynamics
Aeronautics
Airplanes
Airplanes -- Wings
Animal flight
Birds -- Flight
Flight
Flying-machines
Lift (Aerodynamics)
Vertically rising aircraft -- Aerodynamics
Genre/Form Popular works
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813548616
0813548616