* * * * * “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] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/12/12.1 [5] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-572077907195969915 Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org .