Title Why don't jumbo jets flap their wings? : flying animals, flying machines, and how they are different / David E. Alexander.

Publication Info.	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009]
	©2009

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 278 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-267) and index.
Contents	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.
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Summary	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.
Subject	Aeronautics -- Popular works.
	Animal flight -- Popular works.
	Flying-machines -- Popular works.
	Airplanes -- Popular works.
	Birds -- Flight -- Popular works.
	Aerodynamics -- Popular works.
	Flight -- Popular works.
	Airplanes -- Wings -- Popular works.
	Lift (Aerodynamics)
	Vertically rising aircraft -- Aerodynamics -- Popular works.
	TRANSPORTATION -- Aviation -- General.
	Aerodynamics. (OCoLC)fst00798195
	Aeronautics. (OCoLC)fst00798293
	Airplanes. (OCoLC)fst00803053
	Airplanes -- Wings. (OCoLC)fst00803545
	Animal flight. (OCoLC)fst00809189
	Birds -- Flight. (OCoLC)fst00833014
	Flight. (OCoLC)fst00927291
	Flying-machines. (OCoLC)fst00928449
	Lift (Aerodynamics) (OCoLC)fst00998431
	Vertically rising aircraft -- Aerodynamics. (OCoLC)fst01165611
Genre/Form	Popular works. (OCoLC)fst01423846
Other Form:	Print version: Alexander, David E., 1955- Why don't jumbo jets flap their wings? New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009 9780813544793 (DLC) 2008035425 (OCoLC)243845412
ISBN	9780813548616 (electronic bk.)
	0813548616 (electronic bk.)

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