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Journal of Experimental Biology 56,31-36 (1972)
Published by Company of Biologists 1972

An Experimental Determination of the Relationship between Lift and Aerodynamic Power in Calliphora Erythrocephala and Phormia Regina

JAMES WOOD 1

1 Department of Regulatory Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut; Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104

Lift and aerodynamic power were calculated for Calliphora and Phormia using assumptions which maximized and minimized the ratio of aerodynamic power to lift.

The ratios of aerodynamic power to lift calculated by these methods, which do not rely on the assumption that steady-state aerodynamics applies to insect flight, are in agreement with results calculated by others using steady-state aerodynamics.

Submitted on April 23, 1971






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