Two years ago a boy who had just graduated from orange wings tried it. While it was cycling I opened my left wing and thumbed the alula control - I had noticed a tendency to sideslip the last time I was airborne. They're lovely - titanalloy struts as light and strong as bird bones, tension-compensated wrist-pinion and shoulder joints, natural action in the alula slots, and automatic flap action in stalling. Viki remembers the mysterious figure in the dark calling her ' alula' and, as she does some research, the first of a series of startling events that will change her life forever unfold.īut the alula opened properly and I decided I must have been overcontrolling, easy to do with Storer-Gulls they're extremely maneuverable. noun tuft of small stiff feathers on the first digit of a bird's wing.noun scalelike structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.A small projection on the anterior edge of the wing on some birds.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. ![]() See under bastard.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. Also called alulet and cucilleron.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. A similar appendage beneath each elytron of some water-beetles.In entomology: The small membranous appendage or scale situated at the base of each wing of many dipterous insects, above the halteres or poisers.In ornithology, the winglet, bastard wing, or ala spuria of a bird the packet of small feathers which grows upon the so-called thumb of a bird's wing.noun A small joint in the middle of a bird's wing, homologous with the thumb and bearing three or four quill-like feathers.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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