[ExI] fun video for flight controls engineers

[Alejandro Dubrovsky]

On 10/13/11 06:00, spike wrote:
> 
> 
> Is this cool or what?
> 
> http://www.dogwork.com/owfo8/
> 
> How does a bird figure out how to do this?  And get it exactly right on the
> first try?  Or at least very close on the first try.  Flight is unforgiving.
> 

Very related:
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/locomotion/perching.html

Do watch the videos linked from that page (eg
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/locomotion/perching_media/video/perching_project.mp4
) if you haven't before