Rising Tide Images
Perfect Glider
A mōlī, or Laysan albatross, effortlessly glides through clear sky over the tropical Pacific Ocean. Albatrosses are built to glide with the high aspect ratio wings displayed in a left banking turn by this beautiful bird. Bones lock joints into position reducing wing extension muscle tension during soaring flight with an energy efficiency that raises metabolism insignificantly above resting rate. Alternately utilizing orographic lift and gravity acceleration, its undulating flight path skims the crests and troughs of ocean waves for thousands of miles while seldom necessitating flapping its six-foot wing span.
Perfect Glider
A mōlī, or Laysan albatross, effortlessly glides through clear sky over the tropical Pacific Ocean. Albatrosses are built to glide with the high aspect ratio wings displayed in a left banking turn by this beautiful bird. Bones lock joints into position reducing wing extension muscle tension during soaring flight with an energy efficiency that raises metabolism insignificantly above resting rate. Alternately utilizing orographic lift and gravity acceleration, its undulating flight path skims the crests and troughs of ocean waves for thousands of miles while seldom necessitating flapping its six-foot wing span.