{"id":116031,"date":"2020-11-19T09:59:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T17:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/small-finlets-on-owl-feathers-point-the-way-to-less-aircraft-noise"},"modified":"2020-11-19T09:59:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T17:59:41","slug":"small-finlets-on-owl-feathers-point-the-way-to-less-aircraft-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/small-finlets-on-owl-feathers-point-the-way-to-less-aircraft-noise","title":{"rendered":"Small finlets on owl feathers point the way to less aircraft noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/small-finlets-on-owl-feathers-point-the-way-to-less-aircraft-noise.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent research study conducted by City, University of London\u2019s Professor Christoph Bruecker and his team has revealed how micro-structured finlets on owl feathers enable silent flight and may show the way forward in reducing aircraft noise in future.<\/p>\n<p>Professor bruecker is city\u2019s royal academy of engineering research chair in nature-inspired sensing and flow control for sustainable transport and sir richard olver BAE systems chair for aeronautical engineering.<\/p>\n<p>His team have published their discoveries in the Institute of Physics journal, <i>Bioinspiration and Biomimetics<\/i> in a paper titled \u2018Flow turning effect and laminar control by the 3D curvature of leading edge serrations from owl wing.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent research study conducted by City, University of London\u2019s Professor Christoph Bruecker and his team has revealed how micro-structured finlets on owl feathers enable silent flight and may show the way forward in reducing aircraft noise in future. Professor bruecker is city\u2019s royal academy of engineering research chair in nature-inspired sensing and flow control [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}