New paper on LEV

In a new paper by Tatjana Hubel and Ca Tropea published in J Exp Biol, the occurence of LEV in model wings is investigated. The wings are large, goose size, and the kinematics resemble that of a large bird as well. Still, these wings develop LEVs associated with a delayed stall. These results suggest that even relatively simple kinematics of forward flight in largish birds are potent in developing non-ignorable LEVs associated with unsteady aerodynamic effects. The authors also raise the question whether the quasi-steady approach to bird flight, as adopted in the most popular flight models, perhaps now should be reconsider. I anticipate we will need to discuss this in the near future.