Animal locomotion, or Walking, swimming, and flying, with a dissertation on aëronautics (1874)
Pettigrew, James Bell, 1834-1908 · New York, D. Appleton & company · leaf 169
owing to themore oblique stroke, are more horizontal than those made by 144 ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. the wing of the bat and bird. The principle is, however, inboth cases the same, the loops ultimately terminating in awaved track. The impulse is communicated to the insectwing at the heavy parts of the… … Fig. 73. insect being carried along the curve indicated by the dottedline. The impulse is communicated to the wing of the batand bird at the heavy part of the loops a b c d e f g h ij hlmnoof fig. 73, the waved track being indicated p s t u v w oithis figure. When the horizontal speed attained is…
Animal locomotion · Aeronautics
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