Leonardo da Vinci’s discovery of the dynamic soaring by birds in wind shear
Although Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) is well known to have studied bird flight, few people realize that he was the first to document flight manoeuvres now called dynamic soaring. Birds use these manoeuvres to extract energy from the gradient of wind velocity (wind shear) for sustained flight. In h...
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Royal Society Publishing
2019
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