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Stability in Flight

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ALTHOUGH I am quite incompetent to hold any opinion on problems in human aeronautics, I venture to submit that the inference drawn by Prof. D'Arcy Thompson from the flight of certain birds (p. 409) does not agree with accurate observation, and may prove misleading.

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  1. Annals of Botany, vol. xxx., No. cxix., p. 383, July, 1916.

  2. Le Medecin (Brussels), October 31, 1913, and January 15, 1914.

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    HERBERT MAXWELL

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MAXWELL, H. Stability in Flight. Nature 98, 490 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/098490a0

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