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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aAlexander, David _eautore
245	1	0	_aWhy Don't Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings? : _bFlying Animals, Flying Machines, and How They Are Different / _cDavid Alexander.
264		1	_aNew Brunswick, NJ : _bRutgers University Press, _c[2009]
264		4	_c©2009
300			_a1 online resource (272 p.) : _b32 illustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tIllustrations -- _tPreface -- _tAcknowledgments -- _t1. Flying Animals and Flying Machines: Birds of a Feather? -- _t2. Hey, Buddy, Need a Lift? -- _t3. Power: The Primary Push -- _t4. To Turn or Not to Turn -- _t5. A Tale of Two Tails -- _t6. Flight Instruments -- _t7. Dispensing with Power: Soaring -- _t8. Straight Up: Vertical Take-Offs and Hovering -- _t9. Stoop of the Falcon: Predation and Aerial Combat -- _t10. Biology Meets Technology Head On: Ornithopters and Human-Powered Flight -- _tEpilogue: So Why Don't Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings? -- _tNotes -- _tGlossary -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aWhat do a bumble bee and a 747 jet have in common? It's not a trick question. The fact is they have quite a lot in common. They both have wings. They both fly. And they're both ideally suited to it. They just do it differently. Why Don't Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings? offers a fascinating explanation of how nature and human engineers each arrived at powered flight. What emerges is a highly readable account of two very different approaches to solving the same fundamental problems of moving through the air, including lift, thrust, turning, and landing. The book traces the slow and deliberate evolutionary process of animal flight-in birds, bats, and insects-over millions of years and compares it to the directed efforts of human beings to create the aircraft over the course of a single century. Among the many questions the book answers: Why are wings necessary for flight? How do different wings fly differently? When did flight evolve in animals? What vision, knowledge, and technology was needed before humans could learn to fly? Why are animals and aircrafts perfectly suited to the kind of flying they do? David E. Alexander first describes the basic properties of wings before launching into the diverse challenges of flight and the concepts of flight aerodynamics and control to present an integrated view that shows both why birds have historically had little influence on aeronautical engineering and exciting new areas of technology where engineers are successfully borrowing ideas from animals.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650		0	_aAerodynamics _vPopular works.
650		0	_aAerodynamics _xPopular works.
650		0	_aAeronautics _vPopular works.
650		0	_aAeronautics _xPopular works.
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650		0	_aAirplanes _xPopular works _xWings.
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650		0	_aAirplanes _xWings _vPopular works.
650		0	_aAnimal flight _vPopular works.
650		0	_aAnimal flight _xPopular works.
650		0	_aBirds _xFlight _vPopular works.
650		0	_aBirds _xPopular works _xFlight.
650		0	_aFlight _vPopular works.
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650		0	_aFlying-machines _vPopular works.
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650		0	_aLift (Aerodynamics).
650		0	_aVertically rising aircraft _xAerodynamics _vPopular works.
650		0	_aVertically rising aircraft _xPopular works _xAerodynamics.
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856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.36019/9780813548616
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813548616
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