Birds Do It Better

摘要

It may come as a surprise to the Wright brothers and every pilot and aerospace engineer since, but according to University of Montana flight biologist Ken Dial, "At last we are learning how to fly!" Using measuring tools such as tiny electrophysical and biomechanical recording devices, cameras that take three-dimensional images, and high-speed X-ray motion analysis video, Dial and his colleagues and students at the University's flight laboratory have done what no other researchers have: They have looked into the body of a live, flying bird and listened to it "talk."