🦩 Crane Flock Aerodynamics: V-Wake Upwash and Thermal Relay Soaring

Why do cranes fly in a V and ride thermals? Place each bird in the line-vortex wake of the ones ahead, see which positions gain upwash and which lose it, then compare flapping in formation with a MacCready thermal relay across a wetland valley.

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