Like the title says. I know Falcons and raptors can dive at 200+ mph. So when they spread their wings to slow down how do they handle the insane force that they would be experiencing?
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Falcons weigh between .75 and 2 pounds. They’re aren’t carrying 100s or 1000s of gallons of fuel. And their wings are short compared to a plane. As you scale down from a plane to a bird, I don’t think the required structural strength scales linearly, but at some other rate, so a bird that is 1/100 the size of a plane only needs 1/500th of the structural strength.
Or something like that. Someone can fill in with real numbers…..
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