From the earliest days, when people saw the birds fly, we were admiring the beauty and functionality. With effortless ease, a few steps, their huge wings, and the beginning of a sky full STOL take-off, which seems to be a mouth like a DC-10 freighter attempting to plunder their way to heaven.
While on a photo mission for my agency, I spent a weekend on the Oregon coast in Lincoln City, the first hit with gusts up to 60 km / h on the way it was beat, with winds of up to 129 mph in Bay City. But while the wind blew, I came across a huge parking lot full of gulls that have been with a ball in the gusts. When I saw his antics, she has taught me about the relationship between aircraft and birds.
One by one, is that the seagulls wings, and brought elegance in the wind. In about three feet above my head, so they float, not fly with wings, but the wind can provide all the lift they needed to essentially stay in one place. After this was done with gull wing imitation, would be another start gusts from the beach and play the float.
I had my camera with me last, a Canon 40D with a 200mm prime there. With the drive set at about six frames per second max, and adjust the autofocus continuously (sport mode), I could run around a lot, chase seagulls hovering. After shooting 458 pictures, I returned to my hotel and discovered amazing facts about birds. This mega close-ups of seagulls in stationary mode showed me the anatomy of a bird, as I had never seen before. If you refer to the photo in this article, you will see the following five things that come
The first trailing edge of the wing gull extends essentially a very large “flap” additional momentum for the slow flight offer form. This was due to other plans of seagulls flying in fast, if this component feathers were confirmed habit.
In the second over the rag “, are what appears to be a spoiler on the leading edge of wings. If the complete design of this study, the gull wing, it looks like an aircraft wing in its online” landing configuration dirty. I believe the gull wing impressive works of art.
In the third slow flight, gulls would be rounded off their tail feathers off, a sort of “stabilizer” of the south end of the bird in the north to generate additional lift. Working closely with my telephoto lens, I was amazed looking at these springs by bending back slightly, just enough to keep control for his beak into the wind.
In the fourth stationary mode, the gulls would shrink their “Gang” to help control and stabilize their trunk. As the gusts increased, the gang would get dirty to get his cell… And if the speed dropped to gusts, the gull retract their feet clean and remove excess drag. Amazing.
Fifth Gulls held their beak is exactly aerodynamic wind. They would be so easy for the next move when he notes that Bill left or right, just before shooting in any direction to move from a hover.
After a few seconds every seagull float left or right lasts 1-80, suck their flaps and spoilers crank, pull the telescopic legs and the wind off, gathering speed as they were shot from a cannon . All the time, I imagine they were smiling.
I’ve never looked closely at the birds of this kind in their element. The beach parking lot was like a little bird GA airport, the kind where a group of guys and girls in the fabric have had a ball playing with the wind. I think I might be a bit of grilling brats seagulls have seen, while others drank Budweiser in a lively discussion on whether to run more lean or fat beak.
If you’re really on the birds closely in stop-action, they have many similarities with the flying machines, we fly. They have wings, we have wings. They have a tail, we have a tail. They have a beak, we have GPS.
We win.