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

Aerodynamics, Aeronautics, and Flight Mechanics

1979 • 644 citations

Hydromechanics of Fish Schooling

1973 • 598 citations

Formation Flight of Birds

1970 • 453 citations

Unsteady separation in a boundary layer produced by an impinging jet

1985 • 213 citations

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

1987 • 178 citations

Energy cost of gliding flight in herring gulls

1974 • 172 citations

Aerodynamic aspects of formation flight in birds

1983 • 171 citations

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

1987 • 131 citations

Thermal Soaring Compared in Three Dissimilar Tropical Bird Species, Fregata Magnificens, Pelecanus Occidentals and Coragyps Atratus

1983 • 117 citations

Risk of predation, hydrodynamic efficiency and their influence on school structure

1985 • 112 citations

Drag Reduction by Formation Movement in Spiny Lobsters

1976 • 97 citations

Vortex flow visualizations reveal change in upstroke function with flight speed in bats

1986 • 86 citations

Precision and Dynamics of Positioning by Canada Geese Flying in Formation

1987 • 83 citations

The Vee Formation of Canada Geese

1974 • 81 citations

Optimal Travel Speeds of Animals

1981 • 78 citations

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

1977 • 75 citations

Induced Drag of a Bird Flock

1978 • 57 citations

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

1983 • 55 citations

The porpoising of penguins: an energy-conserving behavior for respiratory ventilation?

1987 • 30 citations

Structure and behavior of white pelican formation flocks

1982 • 18 citations

Formationsflug ohne Phasenbeziehung der Flügelschläge

1972 • 14 citations