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Birds are perfect flying machines. Any vehicle needs to be fairly light in order
to fly. This applies right down to the screws and bolts used to attach the wings. This
explains why airplane manufacturers always try to use special materials that are light
but also strong and resistant to blows.
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Silent Airplanes:
Owls silently glide at night to catch
their prey unawares, then suddenly swoop
down. According to the findings of
researchers at NASAs Langley Research
Center in Virginia, an owls flight feathers
unlike most birds, the flight feathers of
whose have a sharp, clean edgehave soft
fringes that decrease the turbulence, and
thus the noise, of air as it flows over wing.
Military designers hope that stealth
airplanes can be made even stealthier by
imitating the owls wings. It is hoped that
planes now invisible to radar will be
completely silent. (Robin Meadows, "Designs
from Life," Zooger, July/August 1999.)
Aviation Research:
During a planes flight, pressure changes at the wings edge can form small
vortexesair currents at the edges of the wings that can impede flight performance.
Aviation research studies have revealed that when vultures fly, they open their
quill feathersthe large feathers at the edge of the winglike the fingers of a hand.
From this observation, researchers thought of taking it as a model to make small
metal ailerons and test them in flight. Using these, they hoped it would be possible to
Living Things and Flight Technology
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Vulture
Future projection
British B2 Bomber:
Butterflies have many attractive colors in its wings, but there is no color
pigment lies in their wings. The secret lies in the reflection of light. Butterfly wings
are covered with transparent scales which deceive the eye.
Butterfly wings contain layers which act just like soap bubble. All colors
disappears expect some color, due to the reflection of light from their wings. Modern
science is using this surprising feature of this butterfly.
This attracted the attention of British defense agency. They will make the
fighter planes from the materials used in butter fly wings to deceive the enemy. The
color of the plane will change with respect to area color.
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