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How hawks slip through tight gaps: A flight stability trick drones could copy

Birds have an ability to fly through obstacles by shifting their shape in flight, which is difficult to reproduce in uncrewed aerial vehicles, commonly known as UAVs or drones. A new study from ...

Hawk Highway: Why Raptors Reappear in March

During the month of March, there is enough of a migration occurring across the US to turn certain ridges, lakes, headlands, ...
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NASA Global Hawk Performs Checkout Flight In Anticipation Of GloPac

CHECKOUT: On April 2 NASA’s Global Hawk unmanned aircraft performed its first flight after being loaded with 11 science instruments for the upcoming Global Hawk Pacific (GloPac) mission. The checkout ...
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Hawks in flight : the flight identification of North American raptors / Pete Dunne, David Allen Sibley, and Clay Sutton

The flight identification of raptors : from the shotgun to the sublime -- Buteos that migrate : the wind masters -- Accipiters : the artful dodgers -- Falcons : birds that measure distance by the ...