Light This City - The Eagle

Song: The Eagle Artist: Light This City Album: Facing the Thousand OWNED BY PROSTHETIC \m/^_^\m/ one of my fav off the album :) Lyrics: He clasps the crag with crooked hands Deformed from gripping the rock so tight Close to the sun in lonely lands But the wax never melts from his wings Ringed with the azure world he stands Emperor of the sky, lord of the ocean The very image of a king His outstretched feathers overwhelming the sky And his innate pride to lead Suggest power, not modesty But he never kills without consuming And though he is always watchful of his surroundings As he skims the surface, I suspect he doesnt realize the panic His shadow induces In the hearts of the creatures underneath The overflowing surge of relief They feel as he revisits His distinguished position on the cliff An immense wall of stone Taking the place of a diamond covered throne A shining ocean instead of a glittering palace To signify his status The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls Tiptoeing past the sentient, piercing eyes He watches from his mountain walls His mind once again boundless in flight And like a thunderbolt, he falls Racing heart, never a doubt Or glance behind His outstretched feathers overwhelming the sky And his innate pride to lead Suggest power, not modesty But he never kills without consuming And though he is always watchful of his surroundings As he skims the surface, I suspect he doesnt realize the panic His shadow induces In the hearts of the creatures underneath The ...

Aerodynamics, the science of flight, is a highly complex science. This is because many complex forces are acting on anything in flight. These forces include the power available for flight and drag produced by the flying object. Each of these categories includes many additional forces that depend on the shape of the flying object, the shape and length of the wings, the speed and the altitude. This is why, for example, high altitude planes have very long wings. One critical force that has been under recent study is the turbulence that forms at the tips of the wings. The shorter the wing, the more energy-consuming turbulence forms at the tip of the wing. Different wing designs have been tried to decrease this turbulence. Engineers have had some success reducing this turbulence with winglets. You may have seen these small vertical wings on the wingtips of some airplanes. Swiss researchers have been studying vultures with the hope of finding a better solution to this problem because vultures have a relatively short wing span that has proven to be surprisingly efficient. They discovered that this is because the feathers at the vultures' wing tips spread out. They then tested a wing with a finger like cascade of blades at the end. Their new wing was more than four times more efficient than the average wing design in use today! It takes a great deal of faith in evolution to think that natural selection possesses such knowledge of aerodynamics. Clearly the vulture was designed by ...
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