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streety on Dec 7, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Vine seeds become gliders with 12% descent angle

On first reading your comment my reaction was, "No way." With a little research though it appears the angle for a 747 is only 5.9 degrees.

Thanks for the perspective.

raspie on Dec 8, 2009 [–]

Actually, I now see that I have originally misread descent angle for glide ratio, but still, even 1/2 of 747's performance is great. Natural selection!

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