LEADER 00000cam 2200673Ii 4500 001 ocn593315853 003 OCoLC 005 20160518075448.5 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 100402s2009 njua ob 001 0 eng d 019 647880115 020 9780813548616|q(electronic bk.) 020 0813548616|q(electronic bk.) 035 (OCoLC)593315853|z(OCoLC)647880115 040 N$T|beng|epn|erda|cN$T|dYDXCP|dOCLCQ|dEBLCP|dMERUC|dOCLCQ |dDEBSZ|dP@U|dOCLCF|dNLGGC|dOCLCQ|dOCLCO|dE7B|dCOO|dOCLCQ |dOCLCO|dOCLCQ 049 GTKE 050 4 TL546.7|b.A44 2009eb 070 TL546.7|b.A44 2009 082 04 629.13|222 100 1 Alexander, David E.,|d1955- 245 10 Why don't jumbo jets flap their wings? :|bflying animals, flying machines, and how they are different /|cDavid E. Alexander. 264 1 New Brunswick, N.J. :|bRutgers University Press,|c[2009] 264 4 |c©2009 300 1 online resource (xiv, 278 pages) :|billustrations 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-267) and index. 505 0 Flying animals and flying machines : birds of a feather? - - Hey buddy, need a lift? -- Power : the primary push -- To turn or not to turn -- A tail of two tails -- Flight instruments -- Dispensing with power : soaring -- Straight up : vertical take-offs and hovering -- Stoop of the falcon : predation and aerial combat -- Biology meets technology head-on : ornithopters and human-powered flight. 520 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 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. 588 0 Print version record. 650 0 Aeronautics|vPopular works. 650 0 Animal flight|vPopular works. 650 0 Flying-machines|vPopular works. 650 0 Airplanes|vPopular works. 650 0 Birds|xFlight|vPopular works. 650 0 Aerodynamics|vPopular works. 650 0 Flight|vPopular works. 650 0 Airplanes|xWings|vPopular works. 650 0 Lift (Aerodynamics) 650 0 Vertically rising aircraft|xAerodynamics|vPopular works. 650 7 TRANSPORTATION|xAviation|xGeneral.|2bisacsh 650 7 Aerodynamics.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00798195 650 7 Aeronautics.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00798293 650 7 Airplanes.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00803053 650 7 Airplanes|xWings.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00803545 650 7 Animal flight.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00809189 650 7 Birds|xFlight.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00833014 650 7 Flight.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00927291 650 7 Flying-machines.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00928449 650 7 Lift (Aerodynamics)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00998431 650 7 Vertically rising aircraft|xAerodynamics.|2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01165611 655 7 Popular works.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423846 776 08 |iPrint version:|aAlexander, David E., 1955-|tWhy don't jumbo jets flap their wings?|dNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009|z9780813544793|w(DLC) 2008035425|w(OCoLC)243845412 914 ocn593315853 994 93|bGTK
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