How Flies The Albatross

We are delighted to see the amazing feats of albatrosses in the news. But the technical papers of the study highlighted in “Flying Economy” (AW&ST Sept. 2, p. 35) use GPS velocity, in effect groundspeed (at the shallow flightpath angles of the albatross) to compute kinetic energy. Clearly airspeed...

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