Comments on: Bird Flight 101: Explaining The Mysteries Of Airflow & The Bird’s Wing https://earthlife.net/bird-flight-mysteries-of-airflow-bird-wing/ An encyclopedia of life on earth Sat, 28 Oct 2023 00:18:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gordon https://earthlife.net/bird-flight-mysteries-of-airflow-bird-wing/#comment-1015936 Mon, 23 May 2022 02:53:39 +0000 https://www.earthlife.net/?p=313#comment-1015936 In reply to Peter Silowan.

Without my library, which is currently 8,500 km away, I think the problem is different for flying birds than for you, they need to hold their wings down rather than up. The lift generated by their wings will support them, they have to simply hold them out. I believe those birds that regularly soar have a special tendon to lock their wings in place so that the greater weight of their body does not force the wings up.

]]> By: Peter Silowan https://earthlife.net/bird-flight-mysteries-of-airflow-bird-wing/#comment-1015933 Mon, 23 May 2022 02:06:11 +0000 https://www.earthlife.net/?p=313#comment-1015933 Hello Gordon,
I’ve been searching but I cannot find how soaring birds can hold their wings out for long periods of time. I hold my arms straight out and can only hold them out for a few minutes and then they get tired and I have to lower my arms. How come birds can hold out their wings for sooo long?
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5/22/2022
Thanks in advance.

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