haha - that's like running into a clock store and demanding someone TELL YOU the time!
BTW what IS the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
12-16-2004, 04:35 PM
green_man
roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour ;)
12-16-2004, 04:45 PM
Marla
Crested gecko disease
Is that an African or European swallow?
12-16-2004, 04:55 PM
green_man
i dont know that... whhhhaaaaaaaa
12-16-2004, 05:18 PM
padiente
Pics of my boy Loki
Here is the answer
Assuming the bird is a European swallow, it will probably flap its wings about 15 times per second and travel at a rate of 0.22 meters per beat. One method to determine the air speed velocity is to plug these values into the following equation:
U=3fA,
where f is the number of times the swallow flaps its wings per second and A is how far it travels per flap. Insert our values for f and A into the equation, and you have:
U=3*15*0.22=9.9m/sec
Hence, the air speed velocity of an unladen European swallow is about 9.9 meters per second.