Trade-offs between stability and manoeuvrability in bird flight

Wissa, Aimy

doi:10.1038/d41586-022-00638-x

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Trade-offs between stability and manoeuvrability in bird flight

An understanding of how wing shape affects a bird’s agility requires parameters relating mass and geometry to aerodynamic performance. Analysis of one aspect of flight, inertial characteristics, fills a gap in our knowledge.

Aimy Wissa⁰

Aimy Wissa
1. Aimy Wissa is in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA.
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Insight into bird flight sheds light on the animals’ evolution and provides design inspiration for engineering. Writing in Nature, Harvey et al.¹ report findings that deepen our understanding of some of the fundamental mechanisms governing bird flight.

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Nature 603, 579-580 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00638-x

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