{"id":2559,"date":"2014-07-29T18:05:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T23:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2014-07-31T12:06:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:06:38","slug":"small-drones-are-now-as-efficient-as-hummingbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/small-drones-are-now-as-efficient-as-hummingbirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Small drones are now as efficient as hummingbirds<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2548\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/320px-Black_Hornet_Nano_Helicopter_UAV.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2548\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2548\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/320px-Black_Hornet_Nano_Helicopter_UAV-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"A Black Hornet nano helicopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). (Photo credit: Richard Watt\/MOD)\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/320px-Black_Hornet_Nano_Helicopter_UAV-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/320px-Black_Hornet_Nano_Helicopter_UAV.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Black Hornet nano helicopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). (Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenceimagery.mod.uk\/fotoweb\/Preview.fwx?&amp;position=5&amp;archiveType=ImageFolder&amp;archiveId=5046&amp;albumId=5046&amp;sorting=ModifiedTimeAsc&amp;search=black%20and%20hornet&amp;fileId=EFCC51FEE65DA414D18085DA188CAB45524FFC4F7A63A403C47E17A8BEF1E554B796D6EA4FD91784A04B36049843E1FB56B129047A099FD2D25A96AF157CFA798537505518A64E1D7223C7BEF938E9802350D35AD81AD47449121340787EA7F85F4E969CCD2D2702CEBBC8DC130611013DB2AE64E2ACA71F72327B9AD5A1B6A8D5DEC2BEA49170B6A204E3FF4C1B621E03CB8ABD69D9F944BEF9800E7E734E2F1E9A147D21AEDF7C948079564F96E76ECECDA28CF50493C8E818D978A144B28C45A515A50054F149\">Richard Watt\/MOD<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">A study reveals that the aerodynamic efficiency of one of the world\u2019s most advanced hummingbird-sized drones, the Black Hornet, is on par with that of actual hummingbirds. While hummingbird wings generate more lift and less drag than an engineered rotor, this shows that artificial man-made wings are closer than ever to approximate the efficiency of these small hovering birds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">For more information on drones, check out our backgrounder on <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemediacentre.ca\/smc\/docs\/SciencePages\/SciencePages_EN%20November%202013%20ref.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Drones and UAVs<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\"> produced in collaboration with <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/sciencepages.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Science Pages<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/11\/99\/20140585.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0Journal of the Royal Society Interface<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 29, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">David Lentink, Wageningen University, Netherlands<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zoology.ubc.ca\/person\/doug\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas L. Altshuler<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, University of British Columbia, British Columbia<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study reveals that the aerodynamic efficiency of one of the world\u2019s most advanced hummingbird-sized drones, the Black Hornet, is on par with that of actual hummingbirds. While hummingbird wings generate more lift and less drag than an engineered rotor, this shows that artificial man-made wings are closer than ever to approximate the efficiency of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2038,1011,2039],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-drones","tag-technology","tag-uav"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/320px-Black_Hornet_Nano_Helicopter_UAV.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Fh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2630,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions\/2630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}