ReviewThe Journal of experimental biology2023
Lessons from natural flight for aviation: then, now and tomorrow.
Review in The Journal of experimental biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Fly-by-Feel: Advancements and Applications of Bio-Inspired Wind-Hair Sensors on Fixed-Wing UAVs.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- How bio-inspired is your design? A transparent reporting framework.Communications engineering · 2026Article
- Dynamic Morphospaces for Animal Locomotion: A Case Study in Bird Flight.Integrative and comparative biology · 2026Review
- Comparative Biologists and Aerospace Engineers: Important Allies to Explore the Secrets of Natural Flight.Integrative and comparative biology · 2026Article
- Structural dynamics and neural representation of wing deformation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Electrostatic adhesion mitigates aerodynamic losses from gap formations in feathered wings.Communications engineering · 2025Article
- CGull: A Non-Flapping Bioinspired Composite Morphing Drone.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Steady as they hover: kinematics of kestrel wing and tail morphing during hovering flights.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
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4 authors.
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Abstract
Powered flight was once a capability limited only to animals, but by identifying useful attributes of animal flight and building on these with technological advances, engineers have pushed the frontiers of flight beyond our predecessors' wildest imaginations. Yet, there remain many key characteristics of biological flight that elude current aircraft design, motivating a careful re-analysis of what we have learned from animals already, and how this has been revealed experimentally, as well as a specific focus on identifying what remains unknown. Here, we review the literature to identify key contributions that began in biology and have since been translated into aeronautical devices or capabilities. We identify central areas for future research and highlight the importance of maintaining an open line of two-way communication between biologists and engineers. Such interdisciplinary, bio-informed analyses continue to push forward the frontiers of aeronautics and experimental biology alike.
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