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Why don't jumbo jets flap their wings? [electronic resource] flying animals, flying machines, and how they are different / David E. Alexander.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.Description: xiv, 278 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 629.13 22
LOC classification:
  • TL546.7 .A44 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
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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Ebook TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-267) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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