Extraordinary Flight of Dragon-Flies

The Oxygen Consumption of Flies during Flight

3-D Analysis of the Flight Trajectories of Flies

Drosoplriln, Tracking, Computer Reconstruction, Saccades, Free Flight We have developed a computer system for reconstructing and analyzing three dimensional flight trajectories of flies. Its application to the study of the free flight behaviour of the fruitfly Drosophiln rnelnnogaster is described. The main results are: a) Drosophila males only occasionally track other flies; b) in such cases t...

Dynamics, Control, and Stabilization of Turning Flight in Fruit Flies

Complex behaviors of flying insects require interactions among sensory-neural systems, wing actuation biomechanics, and flapping-wing aerodynamics. Here, we review our recent progress in understanding these layers for maneuvering and stabilization flight of fruit flies. Our approach combines kinematic data from flying insects and aerodynamic simulations to distill reduced-order mathematical mod...

Flight Mill and Stroboscopic Studies of Oriental Fruit Flies

A flight mill system was constructed in 1969 at the Hawaiian Fruit Flies Investigations Laboratory, Honolulu, to study the flight perform ance of 3 Hawaiian tephritids, Dacus cucurbitae Coquillett, D. dorsalis Hendel, and Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) . The unique system allowed simultaneous measurements of 18 individual flies, and data were auto matically recorded on magnetic tape and compute...

Dragon

Objectives: Dragon Systems is developing and building high performance, computationallyefficient interactive speech workstations, to sup'port adaptive speech recognition of large vocabulary, natural language speech input in real-time. These systems are based on the results of the multi-knowledge source (MKS) algorithm architecture and multi-processor accelerator hardware studies previously unde...