...Henja-Niniane Wehmann; Lars Heepe; Stanislav N. Gorb; Thomas Engels; Fritz-Olaf Lehmann ABSTRACT Mechanical properties of insect wings are essential for insect flight aerodynamics. During wing flapping, wings may undergo tremendous deformations, depending on the wings’ spatial stiffness...

... the detailed three-dimensional wingbeat kinematics of the bat, Leptonycteris yerbabuenae , flying in a wind tunnel over a range of flight speeds (0–7 m/s), to determine how factors affecting the lift production vary across flight speed and within wingbeats. We found that the wing area, the angle of attack...