What is the Air Speed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow?

Guess what?
I am such a geek I actually looked up the calculations for the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow.
And it is drum roll please:

Although a definitive answer would of course require further measurements, published species-wide averages of wing length and body mass, initial Strouhal estimates based on those averages and cross-species comparisons, the Lund wind tunnel study of birds flying at a range of speeds, and revised Strouhal numbers based on that study all lead me to estimate that the average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour.

Source:The answer to the timeless question

This makes my day.

It's dancing time.

Continental... add 2KPH for African...

Vic

EDIT: The story of the swallows of San Juan Capistrano. They tour 15,000 miles at a crack... to Goya Corrientes. Somethin' else fron SJC that don't crack. There's some really neat migration video, likely saw it on YouTube... the entire sky alive with avion...

[edit on 25-2-2008 by V Kaminski]

Still doesn't explain to me how Aurthur got the coconut to begin with.

Man thats some, um, mighty, uh, fine research *snicker* there WraothAscendant

:slaps head: someone actually took the time to research a Monty Python sketch question.

Im going back to bed

HeHe,

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Why is it when I see that scene anymore I think of ATS?

Originally posted by whatukno
Still doesn't explain to me how Aurthur got the coconut to begin with.

2 migrating swallows gripped it by the husk...