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Why Don't Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings?: Flying Animals, Flying Machines, and How They Are Different David Alexander
Why Don't Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings?: Flying Animals, Flying Machines, and How They Are Different
David Alexander
Explains how nature and human engineers each arrived at powered flight. This book traces the slow and deliberate evolutionary process of animal flight - in birds, bats, and insects - over millions of years and compares it to the directed efforts of human beings to create the aircraft over the course of a single century.
288 pages, 32 illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 2, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780813544793 |
| Publishers | Rutgers University Press |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 25 mm · 630 g |
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