The Giant Hummingbird's wings beat up to 25 beats per second, which is about 1500 flaps per minute, the wings of medium-sized hummingbirds beat about 20 to 30 beats per second and the smallest can reach 100 beats per second ( 6000fpm ) during courtship displays.

Typically, the wings are deep-fried in oil ( although they are sometimes grilled or baked ), until they reach close to a golden brown color.

Frigatebirds are large, with iridescent black feathers ( the females have a white underbelly ), with long wings ( male wingspan can reach 2. 3 metres ) and deeply-forked tails.

When scratching the feathers on their head with their toes, they reach from over the wings.

Swept wings would reach Mach 2 in the arrow-winged BAC Lightning, and stubby winged Republic F-105 Thunderchief, which was found to be wanting in turning ability in Vietnam combat.

** Birds Hoatzin are born with two visible claws on their wings, but they fall out once they reach maturity.

Flying bombs differ from missiles in that a flying bomb is equipped with wings to provide lift over a long distance, where missiles are usually launched on ballistic trajectories and do not rely on lift to reach their targets.

Detailed pieces of bodywork on top of the car can be added to allow a smooth flow of air to reach the downforce-creating elements ( i. e., wings or spoilers, and underbody tunnels ).

The flier deploys the parachute at a planned altitude and releases the arm wings, if necessary, so they can reach up to the control toggles and fly to a normal parachute landing.

The grid is built on a large elevated slab, and the wings do not reach to the bottom of the slab, making it possible to walk across the campus without crossing the buildings.

Both male and female dobsonflies can reach lengths up to five inches ( 12. 5 cm ), measured from the tips of their pincers to the tips of their four wings.

Certain sources indicate that, created at the beginning of time, Israfel possesses four wings, and is so tall as to be able to reach from the earth to the pillars of Heaven.

The phrase has origins with Virgil, who wrote sic itur ad astra (" thus you shall go to the stars ", from Aeneid book IX, line 641, spoken by Apollo to Aeneas's young son Iulus ) and opta ardua pennis astra sequi, (" desire to pursue the high ( or hard to reach ) stars on wings " book XII, lines 892 – 893, spoken by Aeneas to his foe Turnus in their combat ).

He can add claws, extend his reach, create body armor, or grow wings.

By using his wings to glide, Spyro can extend his jumping distance to a considerable reach, depending on the elevation the player begins gliding from.

| span main = 40 ft 9 in ; 16 ft 3 in with folded wings

Attached to either side of the base were rectangular solar panel wings with a total span of 5. 05 meters and width of 0. 76 meters.

Attached to either side of the base were rectangular solar panel wings with a total span of 5. 05 meters and width of 0. 76 meters.

The exact size of the Garuda is uncertain, but its wings are said to have a span of many miles.

Aerodynamic research by NASA found that it is necessary for the two wings to be different in either chord or span, otherwise longitudinal oscillation would occur.

Of mixed wood, fabric, aluminium and steel construction, it had unequal span, warren-braced rectangular wings and the first aircraft was powered by a 128 hp Bristol Lucifer engine and had mahogany plywood " Consuta " type floats.

Most wings do not have a rectangular planform so they have a different chord at different positions along their span.

The MAC is somewhat more complex to calculate, because most wings vary in chord over the span, growing narrower towards the outer tips.

Paraglider wings typically have an area of with a span of, and weigh.

The wings had a span of 14 metres and were equipped with a system of warping.

Benito Mussolini's fascist regime turned it into an impressive propaganda machine, with its aircraft, featuring the Italian flag colors across the full span of the undersides of the wings, making numerous record-breaking flights.

Cryptozoologists believe that the Jersey Devil could possibly be a very rare, unclassified species which instinctually fears and attempts to avoid humans, saying that support for their hypothesis includes the overall similarities of the creature's appearance ( horselike head, long neck and tail, leathery wings, cloven hooves, blood-curdling scream ), with the only variables being the height and color, and that it is more likely that a species could endure over a span of several hundred years, rather than the existence of a single creature living for over 500 years.

A mid-to-large sized rail, it can range from in length and span across the wings.

In America, Wanamaker's commission built on Glen Curtiss ' previous development and experience with the Model E for the U. S. Navy and soon resulted in the Model H. The H series began as a conventional biplane design with two-bay, unstaggered wings of unequal span with two tractor ( pulling, not pushing ) inline engines mounted side-by-side above the fuselage in the interplane gap.

In general, the Painted Lady is a large butterfly ( wing span ) identified by the black and white corners of its mainly deep orange, black-spotted wings.

where A is the aspect ratio, the span efficiency factor, a number less than but close to unity for long, straight edged wings, and the zero-lift drag coefficient.

These chunky, medium-sized birds weigh from, measure from in length and span across their short, strong wings.

These gulls range from in length and can span across the wings.

These medium-sized nightjars measure in length, span across the wings and weigh.

This species measures long, span across the wings and weigh.

Adults are long, span across the wings and weigh, with an average weight of.

The Greenfinch is 15 cm in length with a wing span of 24. 5-27. 5 cm and is similar in size and shape to a House Sparrow, but is mainly green, with yellow in the wings and tail.

Adult birds are long, span across the wings and weigh, with an average of.

Extant Accipiters range in size from the Little Sparrowhawk ( A. minullus ), in which the smallest males measure long, span across the wings and weigh, to the Northern Goshawk ( A. gentilis ), in which the largest females measure long, span across the wings and weigh.

This moth has been introduced to the eastern United States and is common near many towns ; it is about 12 cm across, with angulated wings, and in colour olive brown, with white markings.

A revolving door normally has several wings / leaves that hang on a central shaft forming compartments which rotate one way about a vertical axis.

Crane fly, with a pair of halteres visible behind the wings as appendages, about as long as the animal's antenna ( biology ) | antennae, with knobs on the end

Some butterflies ' wings may take up to three hours to dry while others take about one hour.

Initial results suggest that birds from Gran Canaria have wings about 10 % shorter than those on Tenerife.

The glide ratio of paragliders ranges from 8. 8 for recreational wings, to about 11. 0 for modern competition models.

A hang glider ranges from 11. 0 for recreational wings, to about 17. 0 for modern competition models.

His enemy halted again, facing him, and the shadow about it reached out like two vast wings.

It is about 10 % larger, longer and less contrasted than its relative the serin, and has more grey and brown in its plumage and relatively shorter wings.

The main story told about Icarus is his attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax.

There are five different legends about how Buffalo wings came to be.

When asked about her findings regarding the tooth fairy's appearance, Wells explained-" You've got your basic Tinkerbell-type tooth fairy with the wings, wand, a little older and whatnot.

The Stocks lived in the hall's central section, comprising " a large hall, lounge dining room, a chapel, six rooms on a floor, with brewhouse, large courts, stable, etc ", while the two wings were leased tenants from about 1700.

The National Rainbow Coalition ( National Alliance of Rainbow Coalition-NARC ) was a coalition of Kenyan political parties in power from 2002 and 2005 when it fell apart in a controversy between its wings about a constitutional referendum.

" I made a complicated steel armature with a lot of electric motors to time everything so he can fold up his wings, unfold them and flap them about.

The female cones start out similarly inconspicuous, but grow to about 1 – 2 cm long at maturity when 6 – 8 months old ; they have 6-12 overlapping, thin, leathery scales, each scale bearing 1 – 2 small seeds with a pair of narrow lateral wings.

Members of the Society used the tunnel and learned that cambered wings generated considerably more lift than expected by Cayley's Newtonian reasoning, with lift-to-drag ratios of about 5: 1 at 15 degrees.

They almost doubled the size of the elevator and rudder and moved them about twice the distance from the wings.

In the middest in a faire wood he hath a royall House on pillars gilded and varnished, on every inch of which is a Dragon all gilt, which windeth his tayle about the pillar, which his head bearing up the loft, as also with his wings displayed on both sides ; the cover also is of Reeds gilt and varnished, so that the rayne can doe it no injury ; the reeds being three handfuls thick and ten yards log, split from knot to knot.

There are about 65 species of medium to large thrushes in the genus Turdus, characterised by rounded heads, longish pointed wings, and usually melodious songs.