Flying at no mechanical energy cost: disclosing the secret of wandering albatrosses.
Albatrosses do something that no other birds are able to do: fly thousands of kilometres at no mechanical cost. This is possible because they use dynamic soaring, a flight mode that enables them to gain the energy required for flying from wind. Until now, the physical mechanisms of the energy gain i...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/18ef1c91ec9a4438acbb624cc47b8f6f |
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