An American Airlines flight en route to Charlotte, North Carolina, was forced to make an emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Thursday night after a bird strike disabled ...
THIS book is a short popular account of bird flight. Some of its readers will be primarily interested in birds, others in aeronautics; it is perhaps inevitable that a few should be disappointed.
Their wings can flap as fast as a hundred times a second. In horizontal flight they can go at least 35 miles an hour, and males’ courtship dives can hit 60 miles an hour. To capture these ...
THE main feature of this American book is the series of some two hundred ‘action’ pictures of flying birds by various photographers, including the author. Many of them have appeared before ...
A kestrel, otherwise known as Falco tinnunculus, was ready to swoop onto some unsuspecting prey when a Worcester News Camera Club member captured the bird mid-flight on the Malvern Hills.
Only two flight attendants survived. The South Korean plane crash that killed 179 poses several unusual mysteries. A bird strike is said to be one of the possible causes. However, mid-air bird ...