Sentence examples for how flapping flight from inspiring English sources

In any event, the features of Microraptor do not explain how flapping flight evolved or how a four-winged configuration would have eventually been reduced to two.

A second, more recent avian flight mode division by Close et al.20 separates (1) burst flight, (2) intermittent bounding flight, (3) continuous flapping flight, (4) flap-gliding flight and (5) soaring flight, and was applied through description.

All of this is consistent with powered flapping flight.

The Little Shearwater is a typical black-and-white Puffinus, which is probably best identified by its flapping flight.

Hubel, T. Y. & Tropea, C. The importance of leading edge vortices under simplified flapping flight conditions at the size scale of birds.

Or it glided out of the trees as "a halfway step on the transition to flapping flight". A few scientists doubt that Archaeopteryx could fly at all.

The importance of viscous effects to the successful flapping flight of insects has been identified and with the current state of computing and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) these effects can now be studied in detail.

A search for optimal wing strokes in flapping flight: Can engineers improve upon nature?. 28th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference.

UK biomimetic engineering startup Animal Dynamics is building a microdrone with wings inspired by the flapping flight of a dragonfly.

UK biomimetic engineering startup Animal Dynamics is building a microdrone with wings inspired by the flapping flight of a dragonfly.

L. Zheng, T. L. Hedrick, R. Mittal, "A multi-fidelity modelling approach for evaluation and optimization of wing stroke aerodynamics in flapping flight", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 721, pp:118-154, 2013.