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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: The most competent soaring pilots are...
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In-Reply-To: sandee@sun16's message of 12 Sep 90 13:37:03 GMT

In the early 80s, the Soaring Society of America's magazine carried a
story about a pilot of a Schweizer 1-26 matching performance with a
flock of migrating Canada Geese.  The geese were soaring a cloud
street south and he flew formation just inside the vertex of the "V",
their wingtips a constant (very) few feet from his.  They flew thus
for enough miles that the Schweizer driver got nervous about the
return trip home, and broke off the dance.