The amazing thing about the flight of animals is the seemingly simple nature yet unbelievable complexity of their evolved structures. You would think that to mimic a flying squirrel would be easy, right? You know, just slap on a pair of wings and jump off of something. It couldn’t be that difficult. Wrong. It has […]
August 2024 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 BU Links
Tags
aquatic birds auto-rotation bats Bio-Aerial Locomotion bio-inspired engineering biomimetics biomimicry birds colugo drag dragonfly eagle evolution falling Festo fish flapping flight flight flying formation gecko geese gliding hovering hummingbird insects lift lizard micro-air vehicles morphing wings owl penguins pterosaurs robot samara sea creatures seed smartbird snakes soaring spiders squid vortices wakes Wings