Pigeons steer like helicopters and generate down-and upstroke lift during low speed turns

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 50, 2011, Pages 19990-19995

  Ros, Ivo G ^a   Bassman, Lori C ^b   Badger, Marc A ^b   Pierson, Alyssa N ^b   Biewener, Andrew A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerodynamics; Biomechanics; Flapping flight; Locomotion; Tip reversal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY MOVEMENT; FLYING; GRAVITY; KINEMATICS; LIFTING EFFORT; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

AIRCRAFT; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COLUMBIDAE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; ROTATION;

EID: 84055187709     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1107519108     Document Type: Article

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