“Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.”

After spending some time last month trying to develop alternate graphic presentations for kinematic ratios in winged flight [1], I decided to try to answer one of the timeless questions of science: just what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Via Flares into Darkness [2], “Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow [3]”

And now you know.

“Know what?”

“Pardon?”

“Know what?”

“Hey, I already did the post about Talk like Michael Bendis Day [4].”

“No you did not.”

“Yes I did.”

“No you didn't.”

“Yes I—hey, wait just a second [5] …”

[1] http://www.style.org/strouhalflight/

[2] http://yargb.blogspot.com/2006/12/styleorg-estimating-airspeed-

[3] http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/

[4] /boston/2006/12/12.1

[5] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-572077907195969915

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