The birds drift with the wind while climbing, but while gliding, they speed up by using side winds. “The resulting movement,” says the team, “is a complex zig-zagging, roller-coaster ...

Thus, soaring and gliding flight means a considerably higher savings of energy for small migrating birds than for larger species.

Birds have long inspired humans to create their own ways to fly. We know that soaring bird species that migrate long distances use thermal updrafts to stay in the air without using up energy ...

Scientists created a computer model of birds learning to soar in turbulence for insights into how machines might develop that skill, too.

Scientists have created a self-flying glider that uses machine learning to navigate rising air currents, in an experiment that could help our understanding of how birds migrate. Soaring birds ride ...

Thermal soaring birds reduce flight-energy costs by alternatingly gaining altitude in thermals and gliding across the earth’s surface. To find out how soaring migrants adjust their flight behaviour to ...

Researchers equipped a glider with an advanced algorithm and control system that allows it to navigate wind currents in the same way that birds to.

From Staff Another avenue for private pilots is a certification to fly glider aircraft with the North Flo?rida Soaring Society (NFSS) located at Herlong Field. Currently there are about 75 me… ...

CLARENCE D. CONE JR., THERMAL SOARING OF BIRDS, American Scientist, Vol. 50, No. 1, FRONTIERS OF ZEALOUS RESEARCH (MARCH 1962), pp. 180-209 ...

A tow plane pulls a glider aloft over the Oahu coast. After release, the glider generally will cover a radius of five to six miles during its 20-minute flight.