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Why don't jumbo jets flap their wings? :

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0813544793 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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9780813544793 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Title Proper

Why don't jumbo jets flap their wings? :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

flying animals, flying machines, and how they are different /

First Statement of Responsibility

David E. Alexander

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New Brunswick, N.J. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Rutgers University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2009

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiv, 278 p. :

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ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-267) and index

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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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From the Publisher: What do a bumble bee and a 747 jet have in common? It's not a trick question. The fact is they have quite a lot in common. They both have wings. They both fly. And they're both ideally suited to it. They just do it differently. 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 slow and deliberate 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

Aerodynamics, Popular works

Aeronautics, Popular works

Airplanes-- Wings, Popular works

Airplanes, Popular works

Animal flight, Popular works

Birds-- Flight, Popular works

Flight, Popular works

Flying-machines, Popular works

Lift (Aerodynamics)

Vertically rising aircraft-- Aerodynamics, Popular works

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Edition

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Alexander, David E.,1955-

Date of Transaction

20110128002003.0

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[Book]

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