On the wings of a dragonfly; the way a dragonfly flies may inspire new aircraft designs - unsteady aerodynamics

Science News, August 10, 1985 by Ivars Peterson

The work on dragonflies, combined with earlier studies of insects like wasps, suggests that insects probably have a number of different ways of generating and using unsteady flows, says Luttges. "[This] may signal the existnce of a whole new class of fluid dynamic uses that remain to be explored."

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