TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alexander,David E.
TI  - Why don't jumbo jets flap their wings?: flying animals, flying machines, and how they are different 
SN  - 9780813544793 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - TL546.7 .A44 2009
U1  - 629.13 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Aeronautics
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Animal flight
KW  - Flying-machines
KW  - Airplanes
KW  - Birds
KW  - Flight
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-267) and index; Flying animals and flying machines : birds of a feather? -- Hey buddy, need a lift? -- Power : the primary push -- To turn or not to turn -- A tail of two tails -- Flight instruments -- Dispensing with power : soaring -- Straight up : vertical take-offs and hovering -- Stoop of the falcon : predation and aerial combat -- Biology meets technology head-on : ornithopters and human-powered flight
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0825/2008035425.html
ER  -