Unlike many early flying machines, the Éole did not attempt to fly by flapping its wings, but was to rely on the lift generated by its wings ( mechanical copies of bat wings ).

While most of a Pteranodon flight would have depended on soaring, like long-winged seabirds, it probably required an occasional active, rapid burst of flapping, and studies of Pteranodon wing loading ( the strength of the wings vs. the weight of the body ) indicate that they were capable of substantial flapping flight, contrary to some earlier suggestions that they were so big they could only glide.

The arms, which could exert a lot of force but were likely covered in long feathers, may have been used as flapping stabilizers for balance while atop a struggling prey animal, along with the stiff counterbalancing tail.

For years afterward, Winfield's appearances in Toronto were greeted by fans standing and flapping their arms — until he became a fan favorite when he joined the Blue Jays in 1992.

These symptoms were things like neck and back pains, tongues being drawn from their throats, and loud random outcries ; other symptoms included having no control over their bodies such as becoming limber, flapping their arms like birds, or trying to harm others as well as themselves.

The arms were likely covered in long feathers, and may have been used as flapping stabilizers for balance while atop a struggling prey animal, along with the stiff counterbalancing tail.

Flying overhead, their enormous wings flapping in deafening rhythm, they were a terror never before witnessed in the small outlying villages of the capital cities.

The Ketrans were later wiped out by the Capasins. The Ketrans kept the floating crystals aloft by having many of them flapping their wings while attached to the crystal.

: Two monks were watching a flag flapping in the wind.

However, skeletal evidence suggests that its breast muscles were not powerful enough for wing flapping for extended periods.

The arms, which could exert a lot of force but were likely covered in long feathers, may have been used as flapping stabilizers for balance while atop a struggling prey animal, along with the stiff counterbalancing tail.

The forelimbs of Rahonavis were more powerfully built than Archaeopteryx, and show evidence that they bore strong ligament attachments necessary for flapping flight.

They swim by flapping their parapodia, and that flapping action is the reason why they were given the common name sea butterflies.

In other words, a holddown keeps a router from receiving route updates until the network appears to be stable — until either an interface stops changing state ( flapping ) or a better route is learned.

True finches have a bouncing flight like most small passerines, alternating bouts of flapping with gliding on closed wings.

Waves ( ripples and flapping motion ) along the magnetopause move in the direction of the solar wind flow in response to small scale variations in the solar wind pressure and to Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.

When flying to their roosts or feeding areas, small groups fly in formation with steady flapping.

Male tuis can be extremely aggressive, chasing all other birds ( large and small ) from their territory with loud flapping and sounds akin to rude human speech.

GameSpot praised Game Boy Advance version for its well-animated graphics and environment, paying close attention to small details such as Harry's cape flapping while he moves and his spellcasting gestures.

** Planes: Use fixed or flapping wings to generate lift.

The flapping hinges allowed each rotor blade to flap, or move up and down, to compensate for dissymmetry of lift, the difference in lift produced between the right and left sides of the rotor as the autogyro moves forward.

Utilizing thermals to obtain lift, they can stay aloft for many hours, requiring only occasional flapping of their wings and consequently expending little energy.

The studio adorned her in a " gold lamé dress with flapping sleeves like wings " and heavy make-up with an ornate hair style.

The flight is heavy and involves flapping interspersed with glides.

The Brush-turkey flies very clumsily with heavy flapping when it is frightened and roosts in trees at night and during the heat of the day.

He stopped automatically at the street corners, waiting for the traffic lights to change, unheeding of other people, his coat open and flapping.

He notes for the first time that the center of gravity of a flying bird does not coincide with its center of pressure, and he describes the construction of an ornithopter, with flapping wings similar to a bird's.

As Gilliam is fascinated with the Baroque due to the historical age's pronounced struggle between spirituality and logical rationality, there is often a rich baroqueness and dichotomous eclecticity about his movies, with, for instance, high-tech computer monitors equipped with low-tech magnifying lenses in Brazil, and in The Fisher King a red knight covered with flapping bits of cloth.

These predatory adaptations working together may also have implications for the origin of flapping in paravians.

There are also standard named bases which are used in a wide variety of models, for instance the bird base is an intermediate stage in the construction of the flapping bird.

:: His over-fondness for extravagant attitudes, frequently affected starts, convulsive twitchings, jerkings of the body, sprawling of the fingers, flapping the breast and pockets ; a set of mechanical motions in constant use ; the caricatures of gesture, suggested by pert vivacity ; his pantomimical manner of acting, every word in a sentence, his unnatural pauses in the middle of a sentence ; his forced conceits ; his wilful neglect of harmony, even where the round period of a well-expressed noble sentiment demands a graceful cadence in the delivery.

Flight is a mixture of a slow, deep flapping and short glides: unlike their European namesakes, White-winged Choughs are not particularly strong or agile fliers and spend the great majority of their time on the ground, foraging methodically through leaf litter for worms, insects, grain, and snails in a loose group, walking with a distinctive swagger, and calling softly to one another every few seconds.

These predatory adaptations working together may also have implications for the origin of flapping in paravians.

People consider it to be an " eagle-dance " ( in Montenegrin vernaculars usual pronunciation for Montenegrin orao " eagle " is oro ), since the two dancers within the circle jump while flapping their arms upward and shouting.

Many Rhinogrades used their nose for locomotion, for example the shrew-like Hopsorrhinus aureus, whose nasorium was used for jumping, and Otopteryx, which flew backwards by flapping its ears and used its nose as a rudder.

The King Vulture soars for hours effortlessly, only flapping its wings infrequently.

Biological systems are not only interesting to MAV engineers for their use of unsteady aerodynamics with flapping wings ; they are increasingly inspiring engineers for other aspects such as distributed sensing and acting, sensor fusion and information processing.

In the commercial, a confused Van Pelt looks to Rollins for guidance in his " poor performances " which include talking to the camera with his head down on his desk, spinning on his chair, randomly flapping his arm, and elevating his head above the camera.

Then comes the flapping of wings and she sees her husband whom she had so long searched for.

' Men and beasts passed through the haze, black outlines ; a troup of mules with Indian driver was a stately silhouette ; shambling after them a bucket-carrying menial with tousled turban and bedraggled shirt flapping round flexed knees was an immortal grotesque, raised above the plane of human need and anxiety.

According to legend, while visiting the Hanover Mill Works to inspect his cannonballs being forged, Commodore Stephen Decatur sighted a flying creature flapping its wings and fired a cannonball directly upon it to no effect.

It is the fastest-flying bird in flapping flight, being capable of speeds up to 170 km / h ( 105 mph ).

They walk in a slow, shambling motion, with their feet being set down in a noisy, flapping motion.

The latter replied that, apart from the weight aspect, such greater shaft thickness alone would make flapping flight possible ; however, they allowed for the possibility of two species being present in the Chinese fossil material with a differing rachis diameter.

-( i. e. powered by flapping wings rather than propellor ), culminating in Hart-Davis being suspended from a one-man helium balloon and attempting to flap his wings

While being fanned, they must strike with a loud flapping sound, at the front.