• Wing-assisted incline running (abbreviated as "WAIR") is a running behavior observed in living birds as well as a model proposed to explain the evolution...
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    (the trees down hypothesis), from running or leaping (the ground up hypothesis), from wing-assisted incline running or from proavis (pouncing) behavior...
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    from wing-assisted incline running to flight can be seen in the growth of birds, from when they are hatchlings to fully grown. They begin with wing-assisted...
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    at "Wing assisted incline running and evolution of flight". YouTube. 22 May 2006. Archived from the original on 2021-12-19. Dial, K.P. (2003). "Wing-Assisted...
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    chukars grow, and before flying for the first time, they utilize wing-assisted incline running as a transition to adult flight. This behaviour is found in...
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  • Carolina which held the call sign WAIR-FM from 1947 to 1979 Wing-assisted incline running, a theory to explain the flight evolution in birds a type of...
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    from flying ancestors, or even some capacity for gliding or wing-assisted incline running. In 2001, Bruce Rothschild and others published a study examining...
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    notorious deficiencies in flapping behaviors such as WAIR (Wing-assisted incline running) or taking-off from ground compared to other small paravians...
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    arboreal gliding. So-called "wing-assisted incline running", which some modern birds use to help "flap" up steep inclines, is one potential aerodynamic...
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    paravians demonstrated that Microraptor was capable of wing-assisted incline running, as well as wing-assisted leaping and even ground-based launching. Stephen...
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  • Feduccia, Xu, and also ornithologist Ken Dial, who described wing-assisted incline running. In "Fancy", Hanson discusses the role of feathers in sexual...
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    for climbing trees or other more vertical surfaces, such as wing-assisted incline running. Timeline of troodontid research Morrison Formation 2019 in...
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  • whether the flapping flight of birds evolved through the stage of wing-assisted incline running is published by Kuznetsov & Panyutina (2022); their conclusions...
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    from above and evolved wings to assist in stabilizing their descent when pouncing on prey. Wing-assisted incline running (WAIR): suggests that wings evolved...
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  • feathers to run faster. It's possible that the feathers assisted the dinosaurs running up inclines, and this advantage of speed eventually lead to flight...
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    and its launching rail to the incline of a nearby sand dune, Big Kill Devil Hill, intending to make a gravity-assisted takeoff. The brothers tossed a...
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    use their wings to assist running up an incline, and could possibly have achieved flapping flight if a very high-angle flapping wing stroke was used, the...
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  • inclinecincy.com. The Incline Collective. February 1, 2024. "SATELLITE CHAPTERS". THE PRIDE. Retrieved September 30, 2023. "Groups — The Incline Collective". January...
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  • optimisation PACU – packaged air conditioning unit PADPRT – pressure assisted drillpipe running tool PAGA – public address general alarm PAL – palaeo chart PALYN...
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    ground, allowing it to move both down and uphill, even at a 40 percent incline. This behaviour is different than other huntsman spiders, such as Carparachne...
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    transmission's computer, the system is able to determine when the vehicle is on an incline and adjust the shift schedule for improved climbing power or downhill engine...
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    off from the Eigiau tramway at the top of the Dolgarrog incline. The line of the railway incline has today been replaced by a second pipeline, and the adjoining...
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    tilt the entire engine. Maneuvering was by deflecting the nozzles. By inclining levers, the pilot could move the jets of both nozzles forward, back, or...
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    was among other refinements undertaken (extending them to a more gradual incline further in-keeping with aerodynamic-streamlining), while the secondary...
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    gets discharged most effectively when the car accelerates or climbs up an incline. In 2014, hybrid electric car batteries can run on solely electricity for...
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    radiator. Engineers solved this problem by giving the RR a modest cylinder incline of 28°, and moving the oil filter from its frontal placement on the 954...
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  • confined to the latter and to footnotes and tables, rather than used in running prose. Potter, David S. (2014). The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180–395. Routledge...
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    shoulders of the locking piece. The selected angles of the recesses and the incline on the locking piece produce a velocity ratio of about 4:1 between the...
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    certain electoral acts, concluding that there was a mechanism to "improperly incline the vote" in favor of Pedro Castillo. Rafael López Aliaga, former presidential...
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    feature a Grumman innovation, the Sto-Wing. The Sto-Wing used a novel approach using a compound angle folding-wing that was unique to Grumman...It was a...
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