The Flight of Birds and Other Animals

• Published in: Aerospace
• Main Author: Colin Pennycuick
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2015
• Subjects: birds; bats; pterosaurs; aerodynamics; migration; wind tunnel; New Zealand; Pacific; South Pole; Tilting; South pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace2030505

Methods of observing birds in flight now include training them to fly under known conditions in wind tunnels, and fitting free-flying birds with data loggers, that are either retrieved or read remotely via satellite links. The performance that comes to light depends on the known limitations of the m...