Why don't jumbo jets flap their wings?
Subtitle: flying animals, flying machines, and how they are different
By: David E. Alexander.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780813544793
Subjects: Aeronautics -- Popular works; Animal flight -- Popular works; Flying-machines -- Popular works; Airplanes -- Popular works; Birds -- Flight -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Flying animals and flying machines : birds of a feather?; title: Hey buddy, need a lift?; title: Power : the primary push; title: To turn or not to turn; title: A tail of two tails; title: Flight instruments; title: Dispensing with power : soaring; title: Straight up : vertical take-offs and hovering; title: Stoop of the falcon : predation and aerial combat; title: Biology meets technology head-on : ornithopters and human-powered flight.