Christina Harvey, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, uses a combination of wind tunnel studies and modeling of inertial forces to understand how birds ...

While it had been assumed that unstable gliding was the key to agility in bird flight, a collaboration between aerospace engineers and biologists has revealed that stability plays a role. While it had ...

Insight into bird flight sheds light on the animals’ evolution and provides design inspiration for engineering. Writing in Nature, Harvey et al. 1 report findings that deepen our understanding of some ...