The closest thing to flying like a bird used to be hang gliding - well last century anyway. But more recently I think this is more like a bird on steroids! (not so much a soaring Eagle)
...rk Fork River, we head NW to Lake Pend Oreille and visit the Dr. Forrest Bird museum of aviation and invent...you can think of, from Neil Armstrong to Chuck Yager - they all knew Dr. Bird as he too was amongst the eli...
...ut ridge soaring or thermaling this is a video i liked and i thought i would share it.soaring a ridge or entering a thermal flying like a bird often with birds and hawks as you flying budd...
...two or three seconds are amazing, watching the feathers ruffle and the wings swell. Interesting to watch the corrections in the flight path as the bird comes in....
Did anyone see "Winged Migration" ?? Filmed from a trike about birds and their spectacular migrations!!! In the "making of" extras on the DVD they show Pelicans cuddling up in thei...