Movie S4.
A bird-scale ornithopter passively reorients into the wind, minimizing slip angle. Footage from three angles (top, left, right) of the ornithopter as it is released from a slip angle of 90 degrees in a 4 m/s wind in the wind tunnel. The stroke plane angle is 25 degrees.
How lovebirds maneuver through lateral gusts with minimal visual information
PNAS. 2019. 116:15033-15041 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1903422116