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Concluding Remarks

• Birds and insects display a wide range of flight systems

  • tailored for low Reynolds numbers
  • Flapping wing flight allows an extraordinary amount of control
  • Unsteady aerodynamics plays a central role in insect flight

• Birds and marine animals have a variety of morphologies to minimize drag and enhance efficiency

• Engineered flight systems (especially small scale) may benefit from an improved understanding of biological flight

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