Fly Like a Bird: UTEP Engineers Seek to Translate the Mysteries of Bird Flight into Aircraft (IMAGE)

University of Texas at El Paso

Fly Like a Bird: UTEP Engineers Seek to Translate the Mysteries of Bird Flight into Aircraft

Caption

John Bird, Ph.D., and Afroza Shirin, Ph.D., stand with a model aircraft used in their research on soaring. With a new grant from DARPA, the two are using insights from bird flight to develop uncrewed aircraft systems, or drone technology, that can save energy and fly more efficiently.

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The University of Texas at El Paso

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