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As birds glide, they remain aloft in the same way as planes. In ad-
dition, while birds flap their wings to descend or climb, planes must use
powerful engines and control systems to achieve the same results. A
plane’s wing is tilted in the same way as a bird’s. Unlike human engi-
neers, however, birds carry out no tests, and are born possessing an aer-
odynamic structure and powerful wing muscles to provide them with
the needed energy during flight.
Modern analysis of bird flight is made possible by extraordinary
technological advances and the discoveries in the fields of flight me-
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chanics and aerodynamics. Birds possess none of this knowledge, how-
ever; they can neither analyze nor calculate, nor perform test flights. Yet
they still maneuver to perfection, glide, accelerate, descend and stop
suddenly because Allah has created them with a perfect flight system—
the most superior technology—from His own knowledge.
Do they not see the birds suspended in midair up in the sky? Nothing
holds them there except Allah. There are certainly signs in that for
people who believe. (Surat an-Nahl, 79)

The Aerodynamic Technology in Birds Continues to Inspire
Engineers
The perfect flight systems in birds are an inspiration for engineers.
Seeking to produce the most efficient designs with the most appropriate
materials and at the lowest cost, engineers have long been imitating this
superior creation in nature. For example,
* Plane wings are hollow, like bird bones. Inside of bird bones, there are
fine struts between the opposite surfaces to reinforce them. The same
kind of struts are used in aviation engineering, serving as a skeleton
that holds the wing together despite strong and variable air currents.
Known as Warren’s trusses, these have been copied from bird bones. 94
* The ailerons used to control a plane’s altitude and which angle down
from the wing have been arranged to imitate the movement of the
wings as a bird lands.