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  • Recent work has suggested that lift and drag may be employed differently in slow, flapping flight compared to classic flight aerodynamics. Here the authors develop a method to measure vertical and horizontal aerodynamic forces simultaneously and use it to quantify lift and drag during slow flight.

    • Diana D. Chin
    • David Lentink
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-10

  • From frogs remaining airborne using their webbed feet to lizards and snakes gliding by expanding their ribcages, biologists might have thought they had seen every unusual aerial strategy — but now they report flying salamanders.

    • David Lentink
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 606, P: 251-252

  • When biologists unravelled the principles of insect flight, they inspired a generation of engineers to build on their aerodynamic feats. Thanks to a revolution in micro-manufacturing techniques, the first robotic fly now flies.

    • David Lentink
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 498, P: 306-307

  • Measurements of the wings of swifts in a wind tunnel reveal the remarkable changes of in-flight performance afforded by changing wing shape. Swifts can halve sink speed or triple turning rate by choosing the most suitable sweep. Extended wings are superior for slow glides and turns. But swept wings are superior for fast glides and turns, they allow the birds to bear the extreme accelerational loads of fast manoeuvres in the air.

    • D. Lentink
    • U. K. Müller
    • J. L. van Leeuwen
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 446, P: 1082-1085

  • Hummingbirds are known to defy the predicted scaling relationships between body and wing size. Here, Skandalis et al. develop a ‘force allometry’ framework to show that, regardless of wing size, hummingbird species have the same wing velocity during flight.

    • Dimitri A. Skandalis
    • Paolo S. Segre
    • Douglas L. Altshuler
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 8, P: 1-9