{"id":3990,"date":"2015-03-17T19:08:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T00:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2015-03-19T11:28:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T16:28:09","slug":"hummingbirds-could-improve-drones-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/hummingbirds-could-improve-drones-stability\/","title":{"rendered":"Hummingbirds could improve drones&#8217; stability<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3991\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hummingbird_awesome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3991\" class=\"wp-image-3991\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hummingbird_awesome.jpg\" alt=\"Hummingbirds\u2019 short and stubby wings could help scientists improve drones\u2019 stability. (Photo credit: Dave Wilson, flickr.com)\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hummingbird_awesome.jpg 640w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hummingbird_awesome-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hummingbirds\u2019 short and stubby wings could help scientists improve drones\u2019 stability. (Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dawilson\/5886970971\/in\/photolist-9Ydgnv-cJojSC-fo2Lxo-KS7Gy-FoRD4-fEfUY4-6fx3b9-4PLVv9-6oVgD3-9Z6hQg-qCtKeC-gaEh-6eBvnC-4PGEYg-76JmuJ-d2cxZw-ob79L9-nuqS4C-7rieRb-a6JcdT-8x6Mj8-qqwPou-2qtEB5-afu9nP-8MtZfK-oh6Zn4-i2e7um-fgeqyL-bX7vn-6T3xVg-qH2Mxf-ry1gMW-jbE7Z-3aYwrZ-nEFVbH-D9Apw-eiQxe7-6WUZod-fN8zDc-6S1M2X-apgBaH-bXuGMy-kAnD9B-agnJmk-5jZ2nP-4K82xZ-crtUY-fPemAr-4GfVHJ-7W5GYA\">Dave Wilson, flickr.com<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Albatrosses, airplanes, and helicopters all share long narrow wings which provide good aerodynamic efficiency. In contrast the wings of hummingbirds are short and stubby. Conventional aerodynamic theory predicts this should makes them inefficient.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, researchers resolved some of the contradiction by finding that while slender wings are indeed most efficient at a low of angle of incidence, stubby wings are most efficient at extreme angles, because they do not stall.<\/p>\n<p>This finding could help design wings for drone planes which are less likely to stall and thus safer to operate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/11\/99\/20140585\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Journal of the Royal Society Interface\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>March 17<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoology.ubc.ca\/person\/doug\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas L. Altshuler<\/a><\/span>, University of British Columbia, British Columbia<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Contact: David Lentink, Stanford University, U.S.A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albatrosses, airplanes, and helicopters all share long narrow wings which provide good aerodynamic efficiency. In contrast the wings of hummingbirds are short and stubby. Conventional aerodynamic theory predicts this should makes them inefficient. In a new study, researchers resolved some of the contradiction by finding that while slender wings are indeed most efficient at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3991,"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":[2400,114,125,2038,917,2401],"class_list":["post-3990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-aerodynamic","tag-birds","tag-british-columbia","tag-drones","tag-evolution","tag-wings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hummingbird_awesome.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-12m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990","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=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3993,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions\/3993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}