{"id":2195,"date":"2020-01-17T12:04:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T02:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2020-01-17T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T02:04:22","slug":"how-flight-feathers-stick-together-to-form-a-continuous-morphing-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2195","title":{"rendered":"How flight feathers stick together to form a continuous morphing wing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Laura Y. Matloff, Eric Chang, Teresa J. Feo, Lindsie Jeffries, Amanda K. Stowers, Cole Thomson, David Lentink. <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/367\/6475\/293\"><strong>How flight feathers stick together to form a continuous morphing wing<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0Science 17 Jan 2020: Vol. 367, Issue 6475, pp. 293-297. DOI: 10.1126\/science.aaz3358<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<br \/>\n&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Variable feather overlap enables birds to morph their wings, unlike aircraft<\/strong><\/span>. They accomplish this feat by means of elastic compliance of connective tissue, which passively redistributes the overlapping flight feathers when the skeleton moves to morph the wing planform. Distinctive microstructures form \u201cdirectional Velcro,\u201d such that when adjacent feathers slide apart during extension, thousands of lobate cilia on the underlapping feathers lock probabilistically with hooked rami of overlapping feathers to prevent gaps. These structures unlock automatically during flexion. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Using a feathered biohybrid aerial robot, we demonstrate how both passive mechanisms make morphing wings robust to turbulence.<\/span><\/strong> We found that <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">the hooked microstructures fasten feathers across bird species except silent fliers, whose feathers also lack the associated Velcro-like noise<\/span><\/strong>. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">These findings could inspire innovative directional fasteners and morphing aircraft<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Laura Y. Matloff, Eric Chang, Teresa J. Feo, Lindsie Jeffries, Amanda K. Stowers, Cole Thomson, David Lentink. <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/367\/6475\/293\"><strong>How flight feathers stick together to form a continuous morphing wing<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0Science 17 Jan 2020: Vol. 367, Issue 6475, pp. 293-297. DOI: 10.1126\/science.aaz3358<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Y. Matloff, Eric Chang, Teresa J. Feo, Lindsie Jeffries, Amanda K. Stowers, Cole Thomson, David Lentink. How flight feathers stick together to form a continuous morphing wing.\u00a0Science 17 Jan 2020: Vol. 367, Issue 6475, pp. 293-297. DOI: 10.1126\/science.aaz3358 Abstract &#8220;Variable feather overlap enables birds to morph their wings, unlike aircraft. They accomplish this feat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,420,424],"tags":[715,714,712,711,627,713],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}