Visiting the Stanford Flight Lab

Last week MERO got a behind-the-scenes tour of one of the coolest labs on campus. The Flight Lab studies the way birds and other animals fly to inspire and engineer the next generation of flight technologies. In the lab we got to stand inside a wind tunnel which researchers use to study how birds and small planes respond to turbulence and other wind conditions. We then walked across campus (taking lots of selfies along the way) to the cactus garden, where we used the lab's high speed cameras to take slow-motion videos of birds flying in the wild. 

Arriba MERO!

Taking a peek inside the wind tunnel.

Using a high speed camera to take super slow-motion videos of birds in the Stanford cactus garden.