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Old July 17th 09, 01:31 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Off Topic - Intricacy of a bird flight maneuver question - Highspeed video

It looks to me like differential wing strokes caused the turn


On Jul 16, 1:20*pm, " wrote:
What turned this bird around?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGKZ5E3nCD8

3 seconds "realtime" slowed via high speed video

Was it the tail feathers that the bird used to make a 180 in mid
flight?

Three segments in the video, each segment progressively focusing in on
the 180 turn.