When James Buchholz arrived for a Summer Faculty Fellowship at the U.S. Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs, Colo., last May, he was so excited to be back in the mountains, he immediately set out on a hike. The Assistant IIHR Research Engineer drove to the Florissant Fossil Beds, where he walked among the fossilized […]
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Understanding the Flapping Wing
IIHR Assistant Research Engineer James Buchholz recently won a research grant from the U.S. Air Force to unravel the laws of physics that govern the flow patterns and forces that birds and insects create as they flap their wings to move through the air.
Field Activities
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