On the aerodynamics of animal flight in ground effect

Ecological morphology and flight in bats (Mammalia; Chiroptera): wing adaptations, flight performance, foraging strategy and echolocation

1987 • 1,689 citations

The Elements of Aerofoil and Airscrew Theory

1983 • 659 citations

Aerodynamics, Aeronautics, and Flight Mechanics

1979 • 644 citations

Form and Function in Avian Flight

1988 • 502 citations

A New Approach to Animal Flight Mechanics

1979 • 348 citations

Power Requirements for Horizontal Flight in the Pigeon Columba Livia

1968 • 342 citations

THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS

1963 • 331 citations

The impact of a vortex ring on a wall

1987 • 321 citations

Flowfield produced by trailing vortices in the vicinity of the ground

1971 • 275 citations

Bird Metabolism During Flight: Evaluation of A Theory

1973 • 262 citations

The Flight of Birds: The Significant Dimensions, Their Departure from the Requirements for Dimensional Similarity, and the Effect on Flight Aerodynamics of That Departure

1975 • 261 citations

Bird flight performance

1989 • 256 citations

The Wake of a Kestrel (Falco Tinnunculus) in Gliding Flight

1987 • 178 citations

The boundary layer induced by a convected two-dimensional vortex

1984 • 150 citations

Flight performance, foraging tactics and echolocation in free‐living Daubenton's bats Myotis daubentoni (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)

1988 • 149 citations

The Mechanics of Flight and Bird Migration Performance

1990 • 92 citations

Induced Drag Savings From Ground Effect and Formation Flight in Brown Pelicans

1988 • 92 citations

An analytic solution for two- and three-dimensional wings in ground effect

1970 • 90 citations

Vertebrate flapping flight mechanics and aerodynamics, and the evolution of flight in bats

1986 • 76 citations

The Significance of Ground Effect to the Aerodynamic Cost of Flight and Energetics of the Black Skimmer (Rhyncops Nigra)

1977 • 75 citations

Flight performance, foraging tactics and echolocation in the trawling insectivorous bat Myotis adversus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)

1991 • 70 citations

Mechanics of gliding in birds with special reference to the influence of the ground effect

1983 • 55 citations

Viscous flow induced by counter‐rotating vortices

1985 • 52 citations

Drag reduction factor due to ground effect

1988 • 33 citations

A model of foraging efficiency and daily energy budget in the Black Skimmer (Rynchops nigra)

1985 • 31 citations

Flight kinematics and energetics in the little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), with reference to the influence of ground effect

1988 • 29 citations

Aerodynamics and Hydrodynamics of the ‘Hovering’ Flight of Wilson’s Storm Petrel

1979 • 26 citations

Analysis of small-aspect-ratio lifting surfaces in ground effect

1982 • 25 citations

Comment on 'Drag reduction factor due to ground effect'

1990 • 24 citations

Applied Wing Theory

2013 • 17 citations

Nonlinear extreme ground effect on thin wings of arbitrary aspect ratio

1983 • 16 citations

A Theoretical Note on the Lift Distribution of a Non-planar Ground Effect Wing

1973 • 3 citations