J Oliver Linton 2007 Phys. Educ. 42 358 doi:10.1088/0031-9120/42/4/004
J Oliver Linton
Show affiliationsIn any conventional aircraft the wings provide the lift and the engines provide the thrust. In a bird, however, the wings have to provide the thrust as well as the lift. In this article we shall use the ideas presented in the first article of this series to develop a simple theory to explain how this comes about, and use it to predict some important characteristics of the flight of birds, including their wingbeat patterns and their minimum power requirements.
Issue 4 (July 2007)
Received 18 September 2006, in final form 30 October 2006
J Oliver Linton 2007 Phys. Educ. 42 358
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