The Aerodynamics of Frisbee Flight

The Aerodynamics of Hummingbird Flight

Flight Dynamics Measurements on an Instrumented Frisbee

In-flight measurements of the accelerations on a recreational flying disc are made with miniaturized accelerometers and a microcontroller data acquisition system using off-theshelf components. These data are used to determine the aerodynamic performance of the disc, and illustrate several of the complex gyrodynamic aspects of frisbee flight.

Bat flight: aerodynamics, kinematics and flight morphology.

Bats evolved the ability of powered flight more than 50 million years ago. The modern bat is an efficient flyer and recent research on bat flight has revealed many intriguing facts. By using particle image velocimetry to visualize wake vortices, both the magnitude and time-history of aerodynamic forces can be estimated. At most speeds the downstroke generates both lift and thrust, whereas the f...

The aerodynamics of insect flight Sanjay

owe much of their extraordinary evolutionary success to flight. Compared with their flightless ancestors, flying insects are better equipped to evade predators, search food sources and colonize new habitats. Because their survival and evolution depend so crucially on flight performance, it is hardly surprising that the flight-related sensory, physiological, behavioral and biomechanical traits o...

The aerodynamics of flight in an insect flight-mill

Predicting the dispersal of pest insects is important for pest management schemes. Flight-mills provide a simple way to evaluate the flight potential of insects, but there are several complications in relating tethered-flight to natural flight. We used high-speed video to evaluate the effect of flight-mill design on flight of the red palm weevil (Rynchophorous ferruginneus) in four variants of ...