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Why Don't Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings?: Flying Animals, Flying Machines, and How They Are Different

By David E. Alexander

Book information

Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0813544793, 9780813544793
LCC
TL546.7 .A44 2009
Open Library ID
OL18736512M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2357795 bytes)
Pages
288\296
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00
Транспорт;Авиационная техника

Description

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.

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