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BL
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636181
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Alexander, David E.,1955-
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| Title & Author
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Why don't jumbo jets flap their wings? : : flying animals, flying machines, and how they are different /\ David E. Alexander
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| Publication Statement
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New Brunswick, N.J. :: Rutgers University Press,, c2009
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xiv, 278 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780813544793 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 0813544793 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-267) and index
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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
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Aeronautics, Popular works
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Animal flight, Popular works
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Flying-machines, Popular works
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Airplanes, Popular works
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Birds-- Flight, Popular works
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Aerodynamics, Popular works
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Flight, Popular works
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Airplanes-- Wings, Popular works
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Lift (Aerodynamics)
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Vertically rising aircraft-- Aerodynamics, Popular works
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| Dewey Classification
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629.13
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| LC Classification
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TL546.7.A44 2009
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