S1_5 It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a pig!

Authors

  • Ridda Mahmood University of Leicester
  • Arcchana Gajendran University of Leicester
  • Shannon Madden University of Leicester

Abstract

It's likely we have all used the common adynation 'when pigs fly' at some time in our lives, but in this article we question how pigs may fly. Using a Strouhal number of 0.2 we calculated the combined minimum surface area of the wings required for a wild pig to fly to be 5.13 m^2.

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Published

06-12-2017

How to Cite

Mahmood, R., Gajendran, A., & Madden, S. (2017). S1_5 It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a pig!. Physics Special Topics, 16(1). Retrieved from https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/pst/article/view/2561

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2017): Physics Special Topics

Section

Articles