Why don't jumbo jets flap their wings? : flying animals, flying machines, and how they are different /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alexander, David E., 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009.
Temas:
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.
Aéronautique > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Animaux > Vol > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Aéronefs > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Avions > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Oiseaux > Vol > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Aérodynamique > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Vol > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Avions > Ailes > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Portance.
TRANSPORTATION > Aviation > General.
SCIENCE > General.
Aerodynamics
Aeronautics
Airplanes
Airplanes > Wings
Animal flight
Birds > Flight
Flight
Flying-machines
Vertically rising aircraft > Aerodynamics
Popular works
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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