Re: pteros have lift-off

[jrc <jrccea@bellsouth.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Peters" <davidpeters@att.net>
To: "Michael Habib" <mhabib5@jhmi.edu>
Cc: "jrc" <jrccea@bellsouth.net>; "DML list" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: pteros have lift-off


> I think that's all l I had to hear. That's fixes everything if in  your 
> model the wing stays folded until apogee or the beginning of the 
> downstroke. Sort of like a swan dive, except no swan and no dive.

It can certainly be done that way, but it isn't necessary and isn't 
efficient.

> Last question, how long of a run (in terms of # of footprints) -- to  gain 
> speed to load the forelimbs -- before the leap? Perhaps zero for  tiny 
> pterosaurs, more for larger ones?

Zero for the largest ones.
JimC