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Naval Recovery Mission Underway To Find Chinese Spy Balloon Debris: "... will seek to recover all debris and any material of intelligence value"
Epoch Times ^ | 02/06/2023 | Frank Fang

Posted on 02/06/2023 9:20:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: Elsie

At 100 kt you cover 1,000 feet in less than 6.0 seconds. As Otto Lilienthal (aviation pioneer who died in a glider crash) observed, their are no rafters in the air, nothing to push against. Your ability to turn is limited. That contraption is big.


61 posted on 02/07/2023 3:20:59 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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