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- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing
- Copyright
- Copyright © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- ISSN
- 0002-2667
- DOI
- 10.1108/eb031288
- Publisher site
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Abstract
THE study of the flight of birds has provided and will still provide much valuable information for tiie progress of human flight. Many suggestions for the improvements of wings by the use of special wing tips owe their existence to the observation of nature. In spite of such suggestions, freeflight experimentationas far as published work goesis still rather rare and restricted in scope. This reluctance may be due to practical design considerations handling as well as to the necessity of making the conventional aileron as efficient as possible it may also be caused by the impression that experiment in this direction is not worth the effort.
Journal
Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology – Emerald Publishing
Published: Sep 1, 1945