In Hovering Flight

Author : Joyce Hinnefeld
Publisher : Unbridled Books
ISBN 13 : 1936071029
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Hovering Flight written by Joyce Hinnefeld and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 34, Scarlet Kavanagh has the kind of homecoming no child wishes, a visit back to family and dear friends for the gentle passing of her mother, Addie, a famous bird artist and an even more infamous environmental activist. Though Addie and her husband, ornithologist Tom Kavanagh, have made their life in southeastern Pennsylvania, Addie has chosen to die at the New Jersey home of her dearest friend, Cora. This is because the Kavanagh’s ramshackle cottage is filled with too much history and because, in the last ten years or so, and for reasons that are not entirely clear, even bird song has seemed to make Addie angry, or sad, or both. Now, in their final moments together, Scarlet hopes to put to rest the last tensions that have marked their relationship. Through tender conversations with Cora and Lou, another of Addie’s dear friends, Scarlet slowly comes to peace with her mother’s complicated life. But can she do the same with her own? Scarlet has carried a secret into these foggy days - a secret for Addie, one that involves Cora, too. In its structure and style this novel follows in the tradition of writers like Virginia Woolf, Harriet Doerr, and Carol Shields: musical and dramatic, with myriad stories and voices. But the evocative language of this soaring novel is Hinnefeld’s own.

Author : Theodore Wu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475713266
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swimming and Flying in Nature written by Theodore Wu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Symposium on Swimming and Flying in Nature which was held at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California from July 8-12, 1974 was conceived with the objective of providing an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of funda mental biological and fluid mechanical aspects of these forms of natura110comotion. It was the earnest hope of all concerned in the organization of the Symposium that the exchange of knowledge and interaction of ideas from the disciplines involved would stimu late new research in this developing field. If the liveliness of the discussion generated among the 250 or so participants is any measure, then this objective was fulfilled to a significant degree. These two companion volumes contain the manuscripts of the papers presented during the Symposium. It is hoped that this permanent record will serve to perpetuate the enthusiasm and active thought generated during those days in Pasadena. The first volume contains the proceedings of the first two days of the confer ence (Sessions I to IV) which concentrated on the locomotion of micro-organisms. The second volume (Sessions V to VIII) deals with the propulsion of larger fish, insects and birds. Professor Sir James Lighthill's Special Invited Lecture which opened the Symposium is contained in the second volume, rather than the first, since it deals with natural flight.

Author : N. Chari
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811651841
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biophysics of Insect Flight written by N. Chari and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book basically involves the study of flight parameters, wing beat frequency, moment of inertia, and wing movements for developing various aerodynamic forces which have been calculated. The book is intended for biologists, physicists, nanotechnologists, and aerospace engineers. Resilin, an elastic polymer (4 λ) which is present at the base of insect, plays a major role in Neurogenic and Myogenic insect flyers and influences the physiology of flight muscles. Leading edge vortex (LEV) is a special feature of insect flight. Insect wings have stalling angle above 60 degrees as compared to a man-made aeroplane stalling angle which is 16 degree. Reynolds number, the knowledge of LEV, and detailed study of moment of inertia help in developing flapping flexible wings for micro-aerial-vehicles. This book serves as an interface between biologists and engineers interested to develop biomimicking micro-aerial-vehicles. The contents of this book is useful to researchers and professionals alike.

Author : Lysle P. Parlett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hovering Flight Investigation of Two Methods of Controlling a Man-carrying Ducted-fan Vehicle of the Flying-platform Type written by Lysle P. Parlett and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard K. Greif
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Effect of Stabilization on VTOL Aircraft in Hovering Flight written by Richard K. Greif and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louis P. Tosti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hovering Flight Tests of a Four-engine-transport Vertical Take-off Airplane Model Utilizing a Large Flap and Extensible Vanes for Redirecting the Propeller Slipstream written by Louis P. Tosti and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the take-off, landing, and hovering-flight characteristics of a four-engine-transport, vertical take-off airplane has been conducted with a remotely controlled free-flight model. The model had four propellers distributed along the wing with thrust axes parallel to the fuselage axis. In order to produce direct lift for hovering flight, the propeller slipstream was deflected downward about 70 degrees by a full-span 65-percent-chord flap deflected 90 degrees and eight extensible vanes arranged above the wing in a cascade relation.

Author : Arnold Lionel Ducoffe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hovering Flight Analysis written by Arnold Lionel Ducoffe and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robin Page
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547349149
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animals in Flight written by Robin Page and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005-05-30 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wings carry tiny insects, fluttering butterflies, and backyard birds, and they even once propelled some dinosaurs up and through the skies. Find out how, when, and why birds and beasts have taken to the air, and discover how wings work in this informative and brilliantly illustrated book about flight.

Author : Wei Shyy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107067987
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Flapping Wing Aerodynamics written by Wei Shyy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an ideal book for graduate students and researchers interested in the aerodynamics, structural dynamics and flight dynamics of small birds, bats and insects, as well as of micro air vehicles (MAVs), which present some of the richest problems intersecting science and engineering. The agility and spectacular flight performance of natural flyers, thanks to their flexible, deformable wing structures, as well as to outstanding wing, tail and body coordination, is particularly significant. To design and build MAVs with performance comparable to natural flyers, it is essential that natural flyers' combined flexible structural dynamics and aerodynamics are adequately understood. The primary focus of this book is to address the recent developments in flapping wing aerodynamics. This book extends the work presented in Aerodynamics of Low Reynolds Number Flyers (Shyy et al. 2008).

Author : Turgut Sarpkaya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mechanics of Wave Forces on Offshore Structures written by Turgut Sarpkaya and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: