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Birds' tails do act like delta wings but delta-wing theory does not always predict the forces they generate.

Delta-wing theory, which predicts the aerodynamics of aircraft like the Concorde, is the conventional explanation for the way in which a bird's tail operates in flight. Recently, doubt has been cast on the validity of applying a theory devised for supersonic aircraft to the small tails of slow-...

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Autor Principal: Evans, Matthew R
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: 2003
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1691376/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12965029
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2003.2373
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