Wing loading
Relationship Between Wing Loading, Wingbeat Frequency and Body Mass in Homopterous Insects
... Our data demonstrate that among groups of larger insects wingbeat frequency and wing loading are significantly correlated, conforming to the hypothesis that animals with high wing loadin[r] ...
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A Field Study of Flight Temperatures in Moths in Relation to Body Weight and Wing Loading
... In the Sphingidae, Noctuidae, Arctiidae, Geometridae, Saturniidae, and Ctenuchidae the mean thoracic flight temperatures of the various species increased directly with wing loading Table[r] ...
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Influence of wing loading on the trade off between pursuit diving and flight in common guillemots and razorbills
... different wing areas relative to body mass (i.e. different wing loadings) also differ in the relative importance of flight and diving activity during foraging ...higher wing loading than ...
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CHROMOSOME STUDIES IN WILD POPULATIONS OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER. II. RELATIONSHIP OF INVERSION FREQUENCIES TO LATITUDE, SEASON, WING-LOADING AND FLIGHT ACTIVITY
... Thus, wild flies with high frequencies of Standard chromosommes are karyotypically northern, are selec- tively favored during the cold season, have a relatively low wing-[r] ...
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The relationship between wingbeat kinematics and vortex wake of a thrush nightingale
... R is also reported to increase with U in the black-billed magpie Pica pica, pigeon Columba livia, ringed turtle-dove Streptopelia risoria and cockatiel Nymphicus hollandicus (Tobalske and Dial, 1996; Hedrick et al, ...
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Flight and size constraints: hovering performance of large hummingbirds under maximal loading
... The power reserves of hummingbirds are considerable relative to normal hovering performance. The maximal experimental load lifted by the two large species was impressive and close to twice their own mass, but with a very ...
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Biomechanics of Flight in Neotropical Butterflies: Morphometrics and Kinematics
... Identification number ID, species, sex, mass m, wing length R, aspect ratio sR, wing loading pw and relative thoracic mass inj of 15 butterflies for which three flight sequences were ana[r] ...
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Direct solution of multi-objective optimal control problems applied to spaceplane mission design
... The same analysis was then repeated for abort points at 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 seconds, changing the discretisation to 3 elements for each of the 3 phases. Figure 15a shows the corresponding approximations of ...
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Phylogenetic clustering of wingbeat frequency and flight-associated morphometrics across insect orders
... wing area, wing loading and wingbeat frequency were investigated to determine if flight. 127 [r] ...
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Nondestructive Evaluation Of Corrosion Damage In Reinforced Concrete Aged Slab Specimen
... ratio, wing loading, relative thorax size and centroid ...lower wing loading correlates with long-distance flight in between- species comparisons (Turlure et al ...the wing. Wing ...
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Wake structure and kinematics in two insectivorous bats
... the wing) [1]; passive rotational damping plays a key role in turning dynamics for all flying animals studied to date [2]; and for some modes of flight, high lift is generated by a stable leading edge vortex in ...
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Ecomorphological analysis of aerial performance in a non specialized lacertid lizard, Holaspis guentheri
... low wing loading, surprisingly similar to that observed for ...similar wing loading in a different way, ...guentheri wing loading is low because of a great reduction in body ...
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An experimental evaluation of the effects of geolocator design and attachment method on between year survival on Whinchats Saxicola rubetra
... Intercept1 Tied Julian date2 Stalk length Body Mass Harness fit Added Wing loading Attachment order Year 2 576 577 578 579... Table 4: The effect of order of attachment, year and harness[r] ...
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Design, Fabrication of IIUM Unmanned Air Vehicle
... methods. Wing loading required for stall, climb, takeoff and landing were ...the wing provides enough lift in all circumstances, lowest of the estimated wing loadings was ...lowest wing ...
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A 3 D kinematic analysis of gliding in a flying snake, Chrysopelea paradisi
... Chrysopelea and Draco, to our knowledge, are the only predator/prey system in which both taxa glide. It has been suggested (R. Dudley, personal communication) that their respective gliding abilities may have been subject ...
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Kereru (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae) : impact injuries, morphometrics, moult and plumage : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Conservation Biology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... All organ masses had a large range of size and the entire gastrointestinal tract only accounted for seven percent of Kereru body mass (Table 3.3). All organs, investigated here had a positive relationship with Kereru ...
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Soaring and non soaring bats of the family pteropodidae (flying foxes, Pteropus spp ): wing morphology and flight performance
... different wing sizes and shapes (Norberg and Rayner, ...low wing loadings, such as emballonurids, hipposiderids and noctilionids among bats and swifts, swallows and many seabirds among birds, have rather ...
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Effect of larval density and substrate quality on the wing geometry of Stomoxys calcitrans L (Diptera: Muscidae)
... calcitrans wing shapes according to the dung in which flies ...calcitrans wing shape variation ...4 Wing size and adult weight of ...in wing centroid size (i), wing length (ii), ...
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Hybrid Wing Body Business Jet Conceptual Design and Aerodynamic Study
... or performance. A tolerance of 25% was set for the potential points. Aircrafts with the specification and performance within the tolerance point are tabulated. By inspection, the baseline aircraft or aircrafts to be ...
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Body saccades of Drosophila consist of stereotyped banked turns
... and wing rotation angle α ...the wing kinematics angles for a single ...hypothetical wing angles: stroke angle has a phase shift of Δτ =5 deg relative to the steady wingbeat, wing deviation ...
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