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Re: The ACTUAL flying Microraptor paper in PNAS

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Subject: Re: The ACTUAL flying Microraptor paper in PNAS
From: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:32:48 +0100
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 Flying squirrel glide ratio is about 1.8-2.0 to 1. (26.8°)
 As an aside, Archaeopteryx glide ratio is roughly about 4:1,
 and a pigeon's is about 6:1.
 JimC


Does that 4:1 ratio take the lack of tertiaries in Archie into account?

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