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From: JGHIII@applelink.apple.com (Jack Hodgson)
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Subject: Re: The most competent soaring pilots are...
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Date: 17 Sep 90 16:55:59 GMT
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In article <933@jli.UUCP> andy@jli.UUCP (Andy Johnson-Laird) writes:
> Has anyone ever seen birds carrying their prey this high off the ground?
> I found myself wondering what would happen if the bird became alarmed by
> the 800 lb fibreglass monster and dropped the fish? 
> a) What is the terminal velocity of a fish dropped from 3,700 agl?

I saw a story a while back about an Alaskan aircraft that suffered a fish 
strike (!) at some unusually high altitude. They figured the fish was 
dropped by a higher flying bird.

Jack