Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying look almost effortless.
John Bird, Ph.D., and Afroza Shirin, Ph.D., stand with a model aircraft used in their research on soaring. With a new grant from DARPA, the two are using insights from bird flight to develop uncrewed ...
Peregrine falcon in flight at the UC Davis Center for Animal Flight and Innovation. The center is equipped with state of the art video technology to capture images of raptors in flight. The work could ...