LEADER 04085nam 22006375 450 001 9910821580603321 005 20240516152325.0 010 $a0-8135-4861-6 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813548616 035 $a(CKB)2520000000007879 035 $a(EBL)896114 035 $a(OCoLC)593315853 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000344475 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11232317 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344475 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10308354 035 $a(PQKB)10020249 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC896114 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19713 035 $a(DE-B1597)529501 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813548616 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000007879 100 $a20200623h20092009 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhy Don't Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings? $eFlying Animals, Flying Machines, and How They Are Different /$fDavid Alexander 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew Brunswick, NJ :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2009] 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-4479-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 259-267) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Flying Animals and Flying Machines: Birds of a Feather? --$t2. Hey, Buddy, Need a Lift? --$t3. Power: The Primary Push --$t4. To Turn or Not to Turn --$t5. A Tale of Two Tails --$t6. Flight Instruments --$t7. Dispensing with Power: Soaring --$t8. Straight Up: Vertical Take-Offs and Hovering --$t9. Stoop of the Falcon: Predation and Aerial Combat --$t10. Biology Meets Technology Head On: Ornithopters and Human-Powered Flight --$tEpilogue: So Why Don?t Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings? --$tNotes --$tGlossary --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aWhat 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. Among the many questions the book answers: Why are wings necessary for flight? How do different wings fly differently? When did flight evolve in animals? What vision, knowledge, and technology was needed before humans could learn to fly? Why are animals and aircrafts perfectly suited to the kind of flying they do? David E. Alexander first describes the basic properties of wings before launching into the diverse challenges of flight and the concepts of flight aerodynamics and control to present an integrated view that shows both why birds have historically had little influence on aeronautical engineering and exciting new areas of technology where engineers are successfully borrowing ideas from animals. 606 $aBirds$xFlight$vPopular works 606 $aAirplanes$vPopular works 606 $aFlying-machines$vPopular works 606 $aAnimal flight$vPopular works 606 $aAeronautics$vPopular works 615 0$aBirds$xFlight 615 0$aAirplanes 615 0$aFlying-machines 615 0$aAnimal flight 615 0$aAeronautics 676 $a629.13 700 $aAlexander$b David$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0276132 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821580603321 996 $aWhy Don't Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings$93941562 997 $aUNINA