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Old August 9th 04, 07:17 PM
Dylan Smith
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In article , Ron Natalie wrote:
bit. A bird can usually avoid anything going less than 90 knots - don't
forget they get lots of flying practise as they may fly most of the day.


Tell that to the Turkey Buzzard I hit at 80 knots at 2000 AGL in the Skyhawk.


That's why I said 'usually'. If they didn't, we'd be continously
scraping bird guts off our planes instead of bug guts.

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