Ask Ninja 05: air-speed velocity
Ninja August 17th, 2007
You know the drill. Ok, then again, you may not. So here goes… every once in a while I get emails with questions, & I decided to answer a few of ‘em on the site. They’re normally design-type questions or questions about Penguin & me. Sometimes they’re just silly, like this one:
Q: What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
A: What do you mean? An African or European swallow? 
Now, I wouldn’t leave ya hanging! Jonathan Corum (New York Times graphics editor) actually did some caculations & figured out that the average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour.
Link:
+ Read it for yourself (Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow—Hashing out the classic question with Strouhal numbers and simplified flight waveforms)
Got any more burning questions? Feel free to email me at ninja [at] ninjavspenguin [dot] com. Penguin is also available to answer questions, too! He can be reached at penguin [at] ninjavspenguin [dot] com. =)
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