The Albatross-The Master of Dynamic Soaring
The albatross is one of nature’s most interesting creatures. They seem to fly for hours and hours and yet they only flap their wings on rare occasions. The instinct and evolutionary advantage that...
View ArticleFlying Without Flapping: The Wandering Albatross and the Mechanics of Dynamic...
Imagine a plane able to travel immense distances with no propulsion save the power of the wind. Such a capability, though unfathomable to most humans, has already been realized by the natural world in...
View ArticleA Downside to Dynamic Soaring?
Dynamic soaring is the ability that allows albatrosses to travel great distances without constantly expending energy to flap their wings. Due to it, some birds are even able to fly around the entire...
View ArticleGust soaring as a basis for the flight of petrels and albatrosses...
It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s Superman! Flying without the use of energy has always been seen a superpower that people have dreamed of. Such an ability has already been achieved by such birds as the...
View ArticleQuetzalcoatlus: largest flying animal…or not?
Quetzalcoatlus was a type of pterosaur and is one of the largest flying animal of all time, or was it? A study by Sankar Chatterjee, a Texas Tech University professor, claims that the Quetzalcoatlus...
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