Dynamic Soaring Dissected
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Author | : Colin Taylor |
Publisher | : Grosvenor House Publishing |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2023-01-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 180381344X |
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Dynamic Soaring Dissected Albatrosses fly over the oceans in swooping, curving flight gliding thousands of kilometres in search of food, mostly without flapping their wings. This is known as dynamic soaring, which is the use of the energy of the horizontal wind to sustain speed and height. It is different from the soaring flight of most other birds and gliders which use the vertical motion of the air to maintain or gain height. Since the 1880's, a time before manned gliding flight had been achieved, the mechanism of dynamic soaring has been poorly explained by the Rayleigh cycle or the wind gradient theory. However, there is more to dynamic soaring than the wind gradient and furthermore, the true nature of albatross flight has only recently been revealed by filming and GPS tracking. Dynamic Soaring Dissected takes up the discussion where it was left in the 19th century and explains how aircraft and birds fly. It looks at albatross flight through the lens of electronic tracking and takes us on a foraging trip with an albatross in long-distance soaring flight. In the Windward Turn Theory, it describes the mechanism of dynamic soaring and the hidden effect of the wind on a bird or an aircraft in flight. It explains the way that albatrosses are able to turn this effect to their advantage and how they are able to dynamic soar crosswind, upwind and downwind. It also describes how radio-control gliders can achieve huge speeds in circling flight and settles the perennial debate on the Myth of the Downwind Turn and what really happens when an aircraft turns downwind and ends up in a stall and spin accident.
Author | : Randel J. Gordon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Gliders (Aeronautics) |
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Gliding and soaring |
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Author | : Dale W. Fishbeck |
Publisher | : Morton Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 2015-03-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1617314390 |
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This full-color manual is a unique guide for students conducting the comparative study of representative vertebrate animals. It is appropriate for courses in comparative anatomy, vertebrate zoology, or any course in which the featured vertebrates are studied.
Author | : A. W. Babister |
Publisher | : Pergamon |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Author | : Alisson Wood |
Publisher | : Flatiron Books |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2020-08-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1250217229 |
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A dark relationship evolves between a high schooler and her English teacher in this breathtakingly powerful memoir about a young woman who must learn to rewrite her own story. “Have you ever read Lolita?” So begins seventeen-year-old Alisson’s metamorphosis from student to lover and then victim. A lonely and vulnerable high school senior, Alisson finds solace only in her writing—and in a young, charismatic English teacher, Mr. North. Mr. North gives Alisson a copy of Lolita to read, telling her it is a beautiful story about love. The book soon becomes the backdrop to a connection that blooms from a simple crush into a forbidden romance. But as Mr. North’s hold on her tightens, Alisson is forced to evaluate how much of their narrative is actually a disturbing fiction. In the wake of what becomes a deeply abusive relationship, Alisson is faced again and again with the story of her past, from rereading Lolita in college to working with teenage girls to becoming a professor of creative writing. It is only with that distance and perspective that she understands the ultimate power language has had on her—and how to harness that power to tell her own true story. Being Lolita is a stunning coming-of-age memoir that shines a bright light on our shifting perceptions of consent, vulnerability, and power. This is the story of what happens when a young woman realizes her entire narrative must be rewritten—and then takes back the pen to rewrite it.
Author | : Janet Janzen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2016-11-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004327177 |
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In Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants, Janet Janzen traces the motif of the “dynamic plant” through film and literature in early 20th century German culture. Often discussed solely as symbols or metaphors of the human experience, plants become here the primary focus and their role in literature and film is extended beyond their symbolic function. Plants have been (and still are) seen as closer to static objects than to living, moving beings. Making use of examples from film and literature, Janet Janzen demonstrates a shift in the perception of plants-as-objects to plants-as-living-beings that can be attributed to new technology and also to the return of Romantic and Vitalistic discourses on nature.
Author | : Bruce Brooks |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Nature |
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Stories of bird psychology and behavior.
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Total Pages | : 1852 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
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Author | : Michael Shapiro |
Publisher | : Citadel Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2000-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780806521671 |
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Eminently readable, informative, and entertaining, "The Jewish 100" ranks the most influential Jews of all time, with biographies of each person and the reason for his or her ranking. The influence of these men and women spans all fields--from religion and music to sports and philosophy. Illustrations.