The flight speed of birds is more complex than research has previously managed to show. In a new study from Lund University in Sweden, researchers have found that birds use multiple – each one simple ...

Previous studies on forward flight stability in insects are for low to medium flight-speeds. In the present work, we investigated the stability problem for the full range of flight speeds (0–8.6 m/s) ...

Measurement of flight speeds of 138 species of bird reveals that mass and wing loading do not scale according to aerodynamic theory but vary significantly depending on phylogeny. Aerodynamic scaling ...