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SUMMARY:The quest for lift - Investigations into low Reynolds number aerod
 ynamics - Robbie Stevens\, CUED
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CONTACT:Dr Henry Burridge
DESCRIPTION:Since the dawn of time man has been fascinated with how birds 
 and insects fly. Early attempts to replicate flight were often inspired by
  nature’s flapping wing typology. With the advent of powered flight ther
 e was a proliferation of aerodynamic thinking directed towards fixed wing 
 aircraft. Recently there has been a need to develop small autonomous aircr
 aft known as Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) for novel applications such as surv
 eillance and planetary exploration. The famous Swiss Engineer Jakob Ackere
 t is often credited with exclaiming that according to conventional aerodyn
 amic theory\, bumblebees shouldn’t be able to fly! In our work at CUED\,
  we are taking inspiration from nature in our quest to find where the miss
 ing lift has gone with the hope that we can design more effective flapping
  wing MAVs.
LOCATION:CUEd
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