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Stealth airplanes might have the radar cross section of a bird but they don't have the same flight characteristics (altitude, speed.) If you can manage to see
by lupusreal 2y ago
Stealth airplanes might have the radar cross section of a bird but they don't have the same flight characteristics (altitude, speed.) If you can manage to see it, you won't confuse it for a bird.
- red-iron-pine 2y agoput another way, your average seagull ain't cruising at 10000 feet @ 600 mph
- CPLX 2y agoA flock of migratory birds could very easily be cruising at that height, and if in a fast moving jetstream or similar could be moving at hundreds of miles an hour when referenced to a ground based source.
- lostlogin 2y agoThat came as news to me. Some fly at 11200m/37,000 feet. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_by_flight_heights https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_by_flight_heig...
- CoastalCoder 2y agoIf you've ever dropped a French fry at the beach, you know that's not true.