How swifts control their glide performance with morphing wings

Nature

Volumn 446, Issue 7139, 2007, Pages 1082-1085

  Lentink, D ^a   Muller U K ^a   Stamhuis, E J ^b   De Kat, R ^c   Van Gestel, W ^a   Veldhuis, L L M ^c   Henningsson, P ^d   Hedenstrom A ^d   Videler, J J ^b,e   Van Leeuwen, J L ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BIOMECHANICS; BIRD; GLIDING; WIND TUNNEL; WING MORPHOLOGY;

AGILITY; AIRCRAFT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; FLIGHT; FORELIMB; MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

AVES;

EID: 34247630555     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05733     Document Type: Article

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