Animal locomotion, or Walking, swimming, and flying, with a dissertation on aëronautics (1874)
Pettigrew, James Bell, 1834-1908 · New York : D. Appleton & company · leaf 225
om side to side or laterally, it may berepresented as oscillating on one of two centres, as shownat fig. 105; the one corresponding with the long axis ofthe body (fig. 105, ab), the other with the long axis of thewings (c d). Between these two extremes every variety ofsailing and gliding motion… … —d Captain Hutton makes the following remarkable state-ment regarding the albatross :— I have sometimes watchednarrowly one of these birds sailing and wheeling about in alldirections for more than an hour, without seeing the slightestmovement of the wings, and have never witnessed anythingto equal…
Animal locomotion · Aeronautics
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