[Flieger]

Originally Posted by 911SauCy

This thread has uncanny timing.

On my commute this morning, I witness quite the zany bird on the highway.

Did you know pigeons could fly 65mph!? I didn't until this morning...

Driving down the highway at the head of a large group of cars, I watch this bird swoop down from an overpass and start flapping like crazy. It was like the bird was purposefully racing the car. Flying right at my face height, in the center of the left lane (I was in center lane) staring at me...stare back at it.

This lasted about a mile and by the time the hilarity wore off, I didn't get the I-Phone going quick enough to record it.

In Racecar Engineering a month or so back, one columnist was writing about aerodynamics and racecars and shared a little story about watching Pelicans surf a river of 65mph air comng off all the cars on the 405. They would hardly flap at all but be keeping up with cars. Then they'd turn and head to Long Beach.