Ultra-Cool: Skydiving Falcon Clocks 180 MPH From Hot Air Baloon
This is fucking sweet…every year for about two weeks these birds called Cooper’s Hawks (kinda like a Falcon) swing through our area, and I’ve seen them dive bomb pigeons and seagulls and they are un-fuckingbelieveably fast.
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now that is one fast bird
June 30th, 2008 at 11:36 amActually, I think the highest speed somebody’s been able to clock them at is 242mph, and when they pull out of their dive as their striking they can pull up to 25G’s.
June 30th, 2008 at 1:45 pmis that right? 242 at 25g’s. hot damn!
June 30th, 2008 at 4:32 pmThe fine art of falconry
June 30th, 2008 at 5:40 pmHere’s some more great aerobatics, involving a model B-29 launching an X-1 from under a wing! And watch for it to buzz the field inverted 5′ off the ground ….
June 30th, 2008 at 6:08 pmDouble the Fun
June 30th, 2008 at 7:13 pm