2010•Journal of Aero Aqua Bio-mechanismsOpen access

Wing Morphology and Powered Flight of Insects

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

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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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Key concepts: Wing, Flapping, Dragonfly, Insect flight, Morphology (biology), Free flight, Aerospace engineering, Aeronautics