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All About Bird Wings and Flight Feathers

Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying ...
ucdavis.edu

Hawk Study Shows Potential Lessons of Bird Flight

Graduate students Huanglun Zhu and Kiran Weston set up a 3D printed model of a hawk wing for testing in the UC Davis wind tunnel. Based on motion capture imaging at Oxford University, the wind tunnel ...
Woodland Daily Democrat

Bird flight research advances drone technology and wild raptor care

An unassuming metal barn erected recently at the southern edge of the UC Davis campus houses some advanced video technology for a uniquely UC Davis project. Leveraging UC Davis’ historic strengths in ...
Science Daily

Bird wings inspire new approach to flight safety

Engineers found a way to help airplanes avoid stall with lightweight plastic flaps that flutter with pressure changes. The flaps mimick a class of feathers that are key to birds' most daring aerial ...
The Fresno Bee

See how UC Davis bird barn will turn raptor flight secrets into smarter drones

UC Davis runs a bird flight lab capturing raptor motion with sub‑millimeter cameras. Researchers analyze wing, tail and body maneuvers to inform drone design and rehab. Army-funded imaging enables ...