The aerodynamics of free-flight, maneuvers in Drosophila

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5618, 2003, Pages 495-498

  Fry, Steven N ^a   Sayaman, Rosalyn ^b   Dickinson, Michael H ^b  

^a Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; INFRARED RADIATION; KINEMATICS; MANEUVERABILITY; TORQUE; VIDEO CAMERAS;

WING MOTION;

AERODYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; FLY; WING;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; DYNAMICS; FLIGHT; FORELIMB; INSECT; KINEMATICS; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; VELOCITY;

ACCELERATION; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BODY CONSTITUTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FRICTION; MATHEMATICS; MOTION; MOVEMENT; PHYSICS; ROBOTICS; ROTATION; TORQUE; VIDEO RECORDING; WING;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0037453519     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1081944     Document Type: Article

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13. We thank J. Birch, W. Dickson, S. P. Sane, and J. Staunton for technical advice and assistance. S.N.F. thanks D. Robert for scientific advice and I. Fry-Berg for personal support. Supported by grants from NSF and the Packard Foundation (M.H.D.) and by the Swiss National Science Foundation (S.N.F.).