Bees with attitude: the effects of directed gusts on flight trajectories

Flight is a complicated task at the centimetre scale particularly due to unsteady air fluctuations which are ubiquitous in outdoor flight environments. Flying organisms deal with these difficulties using active and passive control mechanisms to steer their body motion. Body attitudes of flapping org...

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Main Authors: Timothy Jakobi, Dmitry Kolomenskiy, Teruaki Ikeda, Simon Watkins, Alex Fisher, Hao Liu, Sridhar Ravi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Company of Biologists 2018-10-01
Series:Biology Open
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Online Access:http://bio.biologists.org/content/7/10/bio034074