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David Lentink

David Lentink is a mechanical engineer at Stanford University.[12]He specializes in Industrial Engineering.[2]

David Lentink is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University.[3]His lab is known for its work on aerial vehicles – drones and winged robots – that are inspired by birds, bats and flying insects.[3]His work is sponsored by an ONR Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative focusing on unmanned, autonomous flight.[4]He has been studying birds in flight for years, with an eye toward applying the tricks birds use to navigate changing conditions in the real world to design better aerial robots.[5]About 10,000 species of birds; 4,000 species of bats; and well over 1 million insect species have evolved over millions of years to spread their wings and take to the air, and most of these species' flight adaptations haven't been studied at all, he told Live Science.[6]

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Andean condors surf air currents to stay aloft for hours at a time Condors can fly for hours using air currents instead of flapping; Fly without flapping? Andean condors surf air 99% of time

A new study sheds light on just how efficiently the world's largest soaring bird rides air currents to stay aloft for hours without flapping its wings. Incredibly, the birds spent just 1% of their time aloft flapping their wings, mostly during take-off. "The finding that they basically almost never beat their wings and just soar is mind blowing," said David Lentink, an expert in bird flight at Stanford University, who was not involved in the research. Scientists who study flying animals generally consider two types of flight: flapping flight and soaring flight.[13]

08/01/2020

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Fly without flapping? Andean condors surf air 99% of time

A new study sheds light on just how efficiently the world’s largest soaring bird rides air currents to stay aloft for hours without flapping its wings. Incredibly, the birds spent just 1% of their time aloft flapping their wings, mostly during take-off. “The finding that they basically almost never beat their wings and just soar is mind-blowing,” said David Lentink, an expert in bird flight at Stanford University, who was not involved in the research. Scientists who study flying animals generally consider two types of flight: flapping flight and soaring flight.[12]

07/13/2020

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This Is PigeonBot, the World's Most Bird-Like Flying Robot Yet

Humans have sought to build bird-like flying machines for centuries. “We actually know very little about how birds fly,” says Stanford University mechanical engineer David Lentink. On film, Lentink and his team found that the wrist and finger joints move independently to align flight feathers. Rather than using individual muscles to adjust their feathers, birds can define their wing shape, direction, and speed with a slight bend at the wrist or twist in the finger joint.[10]

01/24/2020

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