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The Structural Design and Optimization of a Novel Independently Driven Bionic Ornithopter. [PDF]

open access: yesBiomimetics (Basel)
Dai M   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Bioinspired Design for Space Robots: Enhancing Exploration Capability and Intelligence. [PDF]

open access: yesBiomimetics (Basel)
Chen G   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Scaling and mechanical optimality of bristled wings in microinsects. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Kolomenskiy D   +3 more
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Is Flapping Flight Aerodynamically Efficient?

32nd AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, 2014
Flapping flight is much less efficient for some insects than previously thought. The induced power factor for flapping wings is discussed in terms of a number of non-ideal effects for hovering and for forward flight. These effects include losses due to non-uniform downwash, wake periodicity and effective disk area.
Nabawy, M.R.A., Crowther, W.J.
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Dragonfly Flight : II. Velocities, Accelerations and Kinematics of Flapping Flight

Journal of Experimental Biology, 1997
ABSTRACT The free flapping flight of the dragonfly Sympetrum sanguineum and the damselfly Calopteryx splendens was filmed in a large flight enclosure at 3000 frames s−1. The wingtip kinematics are described for these flights. Despite the two species being similar in size, the damselfly flew with wingbeat frequencies half those of the ...
JM, Wakeling, CP, Ellington
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Optimization of Flap-Bounding Flight

AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, 2011
Flap-bounding flight which is a flight mode consisting of continually repeated cycles with flapping and non-flapping phases is treated as a periodic optimal control problem. Two modelings of flap-bounding flight are developed. One modeling is based on energy considerations.
Gottfried Sachs   +2 more
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Flapping Flight

Aeronautical journal (London, England : 1897), 1915
A paper on “Flapping Flight of Aeroplanes ” by the present writer was communicated by the late Professor G. F. FitzGerald to the “ Proceedings ” of the Royal Society (Vol. 64, pp. 420-430) in 1899. At that date much that is now almost common knowledge concerning the mechanics of flight was little thought of, much less understood, practical aviation did
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