Discovery, meanwhile, was reported to be in good flying shape aside from a leaky thruster.
A specific on-board instrumentation system simultaneously measures loads in the rig and sails, sailing data (wind, boat attitude and speed) and the shape of sails in real navigation conditions (flying shape).
An inboard instrumentation system has been developed on a J80 yacht to simultaneously and dynamically measure the navigation parameters, yacht's motion, and sails flying shape and loads in the standing and running rigging.
Or shall we say, flying shape?
Called Mimic, the video is directed by Lucio Arese with music by Yu Miyashita and it features scuttling, flying shapes darting about in time with the glitchy noise music.
In the so-called "Macrolepidoptera", which constitutes about 60% of lepidopteran species, there was a general increase in size, better flying ability (via changes in wing shape and linkage of the forewings and hindwings), reduction in the adult mandibles, and a change in the arrangement of the crochets (hooks) on the larval prolegs, perhaps to improve the grip on the host plant.
Geometric morphometric results generated from 15 landmarks for wings of 169 flies revealed significant differences in wing shape between almost all sites following canonical variate analysis.
Likewise, the overall covariation in wing shape ("individuals" effect) was decomposed into causal components (karyotypes, crosses in karyotypes, and among flies); and the overall covariation in wing shape FA ("individuals × sides" interaction effect) was decomposed into causal components attributable to wing shape DA (karyotypes, crosses in karyotypes, and within flies).
It wouldn't start with synchronised planes flying in the shape of a 100, unless someone had a really dark sense of humour.
