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A Flight Mechanics-Centric Review of Bird-Scale Flapping Flight

  • Paranjape, Aditya A. (Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) ;
  • Dorothy, Michael R. (Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) ;
  • Chung, Soon-Jo (Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) ;
  • Lee, Ki-D. (Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  • Received : 2012.09.05
  • Accepted : 2012.09.14
  • Published : 2012.09.30
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Abstract

This paper reviews the flight mechanics and control of birds and bird-size aircraft. It is intended to fill a niche in the current survey literature which focuses primarily on the aerodynamics, flight dynamics and control of insect scale flight. We review the flight mechanics from first principles and summarize some recent results on the stability and control of birds and bird-scale aircraft. Birds spend a considerable portion of their flight in the gliding (i.e., non-flapping) phase. Therefore, we also review the stability and control of gliding flight, and particularly those aspects which are derived from the unique control features of birds.

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