It is no secret that birds were the inspiration for the first airplanes but, in this episode, host Danni Washington takes a look at how exactly that connection succeeded. She will fly planes in tight formation to try to mimic the energy-efficient flight patterns of migrating birds, look at how engineers are inventing wings that change their shape while in flightà and even jump out of a perfectly good plane to test out an innovation based on the flying squirrel!

Originally released by Rotfeld Productions, 2016. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 06, 2018.

Bio Inspiration (4:58); --Wingtip Vortex (5:13); -- Morphing Wing (4:08); -- Wingsuit Flying (5:28); -- Final Thoughts on Flight (1:36); .