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So what kind of beefy bird flies at 30,000 feet? :)
1 posted on 10/28/2017 2:39:44 PM PDT by ransomnote
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One with an oxygen system on its back. LOL


2 posted on 10/28/2017 2:42:26 PM PDT by mazda77
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Thunderbirds. As we head to our next assignment.


3 posted on 10/28/2017 2:43:28 PM PDT by katana
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Different types:
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/ntsb-faa-investigate-high-altitude-bird-strikes-nea-334523/

To me, a bird-strike isn’t a big deal unless it hits an engine or smacks/cracks or shatters a windscreen.

That’s just me. . .


4 posted on 10/28/2017 2:45:10 PM PDT by Hulka
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So what kind of beefy bird flies at 30,000 feet? :)

vultures

5 posted on 10/28/2017 2:45:45 PM PDT by fso301
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So what kind of beefy bird flies at 30,000 feet? :)

I was amazed to find that some fly even higher than that.

https://www.livescience.com/55455-how-high-can-birds-fly.html

6 posted on 10/28/2017 2:46:03 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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Huh, who knew Rosie O’Doughnut could get her fat arse so far off the ground?


7 posted on 10/28/2017 2:51:15 PM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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That would be the legendary Wild Baldini Bird.


8 posted on 10/28/2017 2:51:57 PM PDT by Jim W N
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A "Big Bird"?


9 posted on 10/28/2017 2:53:07 PM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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Racist bird!


10 posted on 10/28/2017 2:53:09 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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More racist oppression. What those poor souls have to endure!


12 posted on 10/28/2017 3:03:41 PM PDT by Spok
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Rodan.


14 posted on 10/28/2017 3:23:56 PM PDT by ealgeone
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California buzzards.


25 posted on 10/28/2017 4:43:59 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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California buzzards vultures.
26 posted on 10/28/2017 4:45:06 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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Haven’t you heard about the bird?


31 posted on 10/28/2017 5:45:59 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Ah so what? I once was piloting a plane that happened to get dented by the ground. Bastards cut off my mess after that one...


32 posted on 10/28/2017 6:21:32 PM PDT by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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‘So what kind of beefy bird flies at 30,000 feet? :)
Geese can do 27000 feet during migration.

Follow the below link for different birds.

https://themysteriousworld.com/10-highest-flying-birds-in-the-world

During Migration they fly high due to less wind resistance in the thin air. Thus their effective ground speed is much greater. That is the same reason airliners fly at 30,000 plus feet. Their altitude limit is a function of oxygen for the birds and also airliners so long as they do not get up in “coffin corner” but that is a different subject. So long as they have sufficient oxygen transfer in the thin air they will go higher to effect greater ground speed with less total energy expended. It is simple aerodynamics.


40 posted on 10/28/2017 11:16:58 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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Bird would need a supercharger at that altitude.


41 posted on 10/29/2017 9:25:36 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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30k feet? Birds? I don’t think so.


43 posted on 10/29/2017 12:42:16 PM PDT by ataDude (.)
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