Avian surface reconstruction in free flight with application to flight stability analysis of a barn owl and peregrine falcon

• Published in: Journal of Experimental Biology
• Main Authors: Durston, NE, Wan, X, Liu, WG, Windsor, SP
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Company of Biologists 2019
• Subjects: Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Biology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics; Bird flight; Stereo-photogrammetry; Flight dynamics; Flight control; Wing geometry; Tyto alba; Falco peregrinus; DELTA-WING THEORY; GLIDING FLIGHT; ANIMAL FLIGHT; BIRDS TAILS; AERODYNAMICS; BIOPHYSICS; KINEMATICS; DYNAMICS; PREDICT; SPAN; 06 Biological Sciences; 11 Medical and Health Sciences; Physiology; Camber; peregrine falcon
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/71955; https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.185488

Birds primarily create and control the forces necessary for flight through changing the shape and orientation of their wings and tail. Their wing geometry is characterised by complex variation in parameters such as camber, twist, sweep and dihedral. To characterise this complexity, a multi-view ster...