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Journal of Experimental Biology 44,567-578 (1966)
Published by Company of Biologists 1966

Flight in Drosophila : I. Flight Performance of Tethered Flies

STEVEN VOGEL ¹

¹ Biological Laboratories, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass

1. Apparatus has been devised to record the principal parameters of the flight performance of tethered fruit-flies in a wind tunnel.

2. Typically these flies achieve level flight (lift = weight) at 200 cm./sec. and a body angle of + 10°. Lift varies directly with body angle except at very high angles; the stroke parameters are invariant with body angle.

3. Evidence is presented suggesting that these measurements are applicable to free flight.

4. The adaptive significance of the absence of a ‘lift-control reaction’ in fruit-flies is discussed.

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