Wing Morphology and Powered Flight of Insects

Seiichi Sudo; Takumi Moriya; Kyohei Hoshika; Tetsuya Yano; Yoshiaki Shimazaki

doi:10.5226/jabmech.1.24

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Wing Morphology and Powered Flight of Insects

Seiichi Sudo, Takumi Moriya, Kyohei Hoshika, Tetsuya Yano, Yoshiaki Shimazaki

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Keywords: Insect Flight, Flapping Flight, Flight Analysis, Wing Morphology

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2010 Volume 1 Issue 1 Pages 24-29

DOI https://doi.org/10.5226/jabmech.1.24

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Abstract

This paper describes flapping behavior in powered flight of some selected insects. Free flight by a pair of wings for a dragonfly, free flights of other insects, and tethered flight of a fly are studied by the high-speed video camera system. The morphology of the wings of these insects is also studied. The relationships between wing morphology and flight mechanisms are considered experimentally.

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