Open AccessLissaman, Shollenberger and formation flight in birds
Author(s) -
Steven J. Portugal
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of experimental biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1477-9145
pISSN - 0022-0949
DOI - 10.1242/jeb.148114
Subject(s) - flock , lift (data mining) , wing , bird flight , aeronautics , meteorology , physics , computer science , ecology , engineering , aerospace engineering , biology , data mining
![Figure][1] Steven Portugal discusses the impact of Peter Lissaman and Carl Shollenberger's classic paper ‘Formation flight of birds’, published in Science in 1970. For centuries, mankind has been fascinated by V-formation flight in birds. Back in AD 79, Pliny the Elder noted that
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