Animal locomotion, or Walking, swimming, and flying, with a dissertation on aëronautics (1874)
Pettigrew, James Bell, 1834-1908 · New York, D. Appleton & company · leaf 133
ined surfaces, results in flight. I wish nowto show that flight may also be produced by a very obliqueand almost horizontal stroke of the wing, as in some insects,e.g. the wasp, blue-bottle, and other flies. In those insectsthe wing is made to vibrate with a figure-of-8 sculling motion in a very… … i Fig. 54. J?K0GKESS10N IN OR THROUGH THE AIR. 109 In this figure (5 4) the conditions represented at fig. 5 3 (p,107) are exactly reproduced, the only difference being that inthe present figure the wing is applied to the air in a more or lesshorizontal direction, whereas in fig. 53 it is applied…
Animal locomotion · Aeronautics
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