David Alexander

Why Don't Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings?

Flying Animals, Flying Machines, and How They Are Different

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 160mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780813544793
• ISBN-10: 0813544793
• Artikelnr.: 25855759

Autorenporträt

David E. Alexander

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
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
Epilogue: So Why Don't Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings?
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index