What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen sparrow?

No, really. It’s simply a matter of hashing out the classic question with Strouhal numbers and simplified flight waveforms, you see? (via SfAD)…

No, really. It’s simply a matter of hashing out the classic question with Strouhal numbers and simplified flight waveforms, you see?

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Doyce says:
Wed 19-Nov-03 9:06am at 9:06am
I wish he’d just cut to the chase and started off with ’24 miles an hour, and here’s why’, so I could have skipped the rest. Granted, reading the whole thing does yeild the four capitals of Assyria, but I rarely need that sort of value added.
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*** Dave says:
Wed 19-Nov-03 10:41am at 10:41am
Ah. Clearly he should have added an abstract to the article …
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Jara says:
Tue 10-Feb-04 6:37am at 6:37am
Is this an African or European sparrow?
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*** Dave says:
Tue 10-Feb-04 7:51am at 7:51am
Well, if you read the article …
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PCM says:
Wed 14-Jul-04 10:23am at 10:23am
Isn’t the burning question around an unladen swallow, as opposed to an unladen sparrow?
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