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Fly without flapping? Andean condors surf air 99% of time
AP ^ | 13 July 2020 | CHRISTINA LARSON

Posted on 07/14/2020 9:39:04 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

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To: 4yearlurker

You don’t see them bragging about it.

Perhaps a better press agent would help?

That said, most of the news is based on twitter trends...

Your albatross friends may be better off saving their money.


21 posted on 07/14/2020 11:25:00 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: cuban leaf

Yeah. They are cool. And we love their humility. They only want what others no longer need.


22 posted on 07/14/2020 11:54:06 AM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

They’ll go up to 40k feet - I think they hold their breath.


23 posted on 07/14/2020 11:57:33 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: cuban leaf

I was going to mention turkey vultures (that’s what we call them in California), too. As you say, you rarely see them flap their wings.


24 posted on 07/14/2020 12:59:32 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: 4yearlurker
...37,000 feet - the same height as a coasting commercial airplane

None of my plane flights at 37,000 feet were coasting. The pilot kept the engines on the whole time. It would probably be a lot quieter and more peaceful if we were coasting, though. At least for a while.

25 posted on 07/14/2020 1:02:43 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

We call them both. Buzzards or vultures. :)


26 posted on 07/14/2020 1:07:41 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“How do you suppose they carry all the oxygen tanks?”

When you eat what they eat you learn to hold your breath for a long time.


27 posted on 07/14/2020 1:54:41 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (The Democrat party. A collaboration of Cloward-Piven and Dunning-Kruger.)
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To: halfright

Right? Don’t make the camera a drone that could actually fly back down somewhere easy to pick it up, let the bird drop it in a cliff face so you and your crew can get a nice government paid climbing experience... all so we can learn that these birds don’t flap their wings and they fly in circles.


28 posted on 07/14/2020 2:16:41 PM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: CrazyIvan

Sounds about right to me!


29 posted on 07/14/2020 2:47:48 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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