this is the peregrine falcon one of
nature’s fold as predators for thousands
of years humans have admired its
powerful wings and fiery spirit but one
quality above all sets this bird of prey
apart when it comes to raw speed no
creature on earth can match it
commercial pilot Ken Franklin raises and
studies Falcons to see how they live and
how they move what characterizes a
parent falcon as it’s pure ability to
hunt at high speed in the open air space
the more that I was involved in flight
with burrs and started seeing their
speed the more I wanted to I really was
driven just to be basically on wing with
them but experts can’t agree on the
peregrines
top speed to answer that question
ken assembles a team of specialists and
a very special falcon named frightfully
he’ll test your speed with a lead
weighted lure that he’ll release as he
dives with her a tiny computer like
those used by skydivers is hooked onto
feather shafts just under 5 oz tail
cupboards ken is confident it won’t
affect her performance
the Cessna strains in the thin air at
15,000 feet although wild Falcons may
reach this altitude this is the highest
frightful has ever been in her life
frightful is released at 12,000 feet she
goes into her die
after 10 seconds she’s going 120 miles
an hour pan releases the Lord 21 seconds
frightful ships into hyperdrive
that’s what Ken’s been looking for she
shifts her shape to slip through the
airs molecules 43 seconds she catches
the door pulls out of her dive at 3,000
feet and heads home
moments later Ken shoots snaps open it
looks like a perfect flight the verdict
is in frightful has broken her own
record and Ken still doesn’t know how
much faster she can go 183 miles now
aerodynamically if they are the
incredible contortionist this is like
karate in the air and what they do to
hyper streamline and then when they
achieve highest speeds how they hold it
blew us away
one week later frightful was clocked at
an astonishing 242 miles an hour
nature’s fold as predators for thousands
of years humans have admired its
powerful wings and fiery spirit but one
quality above all sets this bird of prey
apart when it comes to raw speed no
creature on earth can match it
commercial pilot Ken Franklin raises and
studies Falcons to see how they live and
how they move what characterizes a
parent falcon as it’s pure ability to
hunt at high speed in the open air space
the more that I was involved in flight
with burrs and started seeing their
speed the more I wanted to I really was
driven just to be basically on wing with
them but experts can’t agree on the
peregrines
top speed to answer that question
ken assembles a team of specialists and
a very special falcon named frightfully
he’ll test your speed with a lead
weighted lure that he’ll release as he
dives with her a tiny computer like
those used by skydivers is hooked onto
feather shafts just under 5 oz tail
cupboards ken is confident it won’t
affect her performance
the Cessna strains in the thin air at
15,000 feet although wild Falcons may
reach this altitude this is the highest
frightful has ever been in her life
frightful is released at 12,000 feet she
goes into her die
after 10 seconds she’s going 120 miles
an hour pan releases the Lord 21 seconds
frightful ships into hyperdrive
that’s what Ken’s been looking for she
shifts her shape to slip through the
airs molecules 43 seconds she catches
the door pulls out of her dive at 3,000
feet and heads home
moments later Ken shoots snaps open it
looks like a perfect flight the verdict
is in frightful has broken her own
record and Ken still doesn’t know how
much faster she can go 183 miles now
aerodynamically if they are the
incredible contortionist this is like
karate in the air and what they do to
hyper streamline and then when they
achieve highest speeds how they hold it
blew us away
one week later frightful was clocked at
an astonishing 242 miles an hour
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