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There has been a tendency amongst scholars to view Switzerland as a unique case, and comparative scholarship on the radical right has therefore shown little interest in the country. Yet, as the author convincingly argues, there is little justification for maintaining the notion of Swiss exceptionalism, and excluding the Swiss radical right from cross-national research. His book presents the first comprehensive study of the development of the radical right in Switzerland since the end of the Second World War and therefore fills a significant gap in our knowledge. It examines the role that parti

Radicalism --- Right-wing extremists --- History --- Switzerland --- Politics and government

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Citizenship --- National characteristics, German. --- Nationalism --- Right-wing extremists --- Germany --- Ethnic relations.

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Antisemitism --- Neo-Nazism --- Racism --- Right-wing extremists --- History --- History --- History --- History

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Genetic algorithms. --- Rotary wing aircraft. --- Noise reduction. --- Trajectories. --- Helicopters. --- Acoustic properties. --- Aircraft design.

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What do a bumble bee and a 747 jet have in common? It’s not a trick question. The fact is they have quite a lot in common. They both have wings. They both fly. And they’re both ideally suited to it. They just do it differently. Why Don’t Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings? offers a fascinating explanation of how nature and human engineers each arrived at powered flight. What emerges is a highly readable account of two very different approaches to solving the same fundamental problems of moving through the air, including lift, thrust, turning, and landing. The book traces the slow and deliberate evolutionary process of animal flight—in birds, bats, and insects—over millions of years and compares it to the directed efforts of human beings to create the aircraft over the course of a single century. Among the many questions the book answers: Why are wings necessary for flight? How do different wings fly differently? When did flight evolve in animals? What vision, knowledge, and technology was needed before humans could learn to fly? Why are animals and aircrafts perfectly suited to the kind of flying they do? David E. Alexander first describes the basic properties of wings before launching into the diverse challenges of flight and the concepts of flight aerodynamics and control to present an integrated view that shows both why birds have historically had little influence on aeronautical engineering and exciting new areas of technology where engineers are successfully borrowing ideas from animals.

Birds --- Airplanes --- Flying-machines --- Animal flight --- Aeronautics --- Aves --- Avian fauna --- Avifauna --- Wild birds --- Amniotes --- Vertebrates --- Ornithology --- Aeroplanes --- Aircraft, Fixed wing --- Fixed wing aircraft --- Planes (Airplanes) --- Aircraft industry --- Flight --- Machinery --- Animal flying --- Animals --- Flight in animals --- Animal locomotion --- Wings (Anatomy)