A Fast Analysis of Pesticide Spray Dispersion by an Agricultural Aircraft Very near the Ground by Ji King, Xinyu Xue, Weixiang Yao, Zhen Jin

“…The lifting line-wingtip vortices mixture model is proposed to calculate induced velocity field around a monoplane far to 190 wingspans downstream, and N-vortex system based on point vortex dynamics is applied to simulate vortex rebound and vortex motion on considering extreme ground effect. …”
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Harnessing 3D microarchitecture of pterosaur bone using multi-scale X-ray CT for aerospace material design by Nathan Pili, Tristan J. Lowe, Lee Margetts, Kevin Pickup, William I. Sellers, Emma L. Nicholls, Philip J. Withers, Phillip L. Manning

“…Abstract Pterosaurs were the largest animals to have achieved powered flight in the history of life on Earth, possessing wingspans akin to some modern light aircraft. Vertebrate fossils have shown their potential to retain information on the chemical, physical, and mechanical properties of precursor bone. …”
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What Drives Caterpillar Guilds on a Tree: Enemy Pressure, Leaf or Tree Growth, Genetic Traits, or Phylogenetic Neighbourhood? by Freerk Molleman, Urszula Walczak, Iwona Melosik, Edward Baraniak, Łukasz Piosik, Andreas Prinzing

“…Neighbourhoods and traits of trees were also related to community composition and diversity, but not to the average wingspans or specialization of species, consistent with the assembly of herbivore communities being driven by leaf traits and parasitism pressure on trees rather than by insect movement among trees. …”
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