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Fig. 1. A two-dimensional approximation of a three-dimensional stroke. The motion of the wing is divided here into three stages: downstroke (A), rotation (B) and upstroke (C). In reality, the rotational phase overlaps with the downstroke and the upstroke. The wing moves approximately along a horizontal plane. The center of rotation is 0.2 chord lengths from the leading edge of the wing.





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