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In a gravity environment birds and insects perform work to get airborne. When landing work is mainly done by gravity.
In a zero G environment, an object is in free fall which means there is a fictitious force of equal but opposite magnitude to the weight of the object.
While a bird and insect in free fall can take off at any given angle, there is a vertical component of the force acting in the same direction as the fictitious force. Under these conditions gravity doesn't overcome the inertia of the vertical force.
In order to land a bird or insect will have to perform the work instead of gravity.
So how can the biomechanics of a bird or insect be utilized to perform the work for landing instead of gravity?
Regards
Steven
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