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Old November 7th 06, 06:55 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default AERODYNAMICS OF GLIDING FLIGHT IN A HARRIS' HAWK


Doug Haluza wrote:
Stumbled across an interesting wind tunnel test of a Harris' Hawk
(L/D=10:1).

http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/149/1/469.pdf


That is awesome, now the Hawks can derive polar coefficients to program
into their flight computers.