The peregrine falcon has the additional advantage of a natural flight style of circling above the falconer ("waiting on") for game to be flushed, and then performing an effective and exciting high speed diving stoop to take the quarry.
We were talking about it last night and he said: 'Well, I still wasn't last up the mountain.'" That competitive spirit in the face of adversity shone through for Thomas – the speed with which he got back on his bike after a high-speed dive into a ditch at Gap was stunning – and the other scions of Ellingworth's academy: Stannard, Kennaugh, Rowe and Cavendish.
That validates one of the main theories about what happened to the plane -- that it plummeted into the ocean in a deep, high-speed dive rather than gliding into a lower-impact crash into the water's surface, said David Soucie, a former accident investigator for the Federal Aviation Administration and author of "Why Planes Crash" and a recently published book on the MH370 mystery.
But close-up pictures of the wing piece bearing an identifying maintenance number and showing tell-tale damage to the flaperon's edge suggest that it broke off the aircraft during a high-speed dive after running out of fuel, a prominent aviation accident analyst said Friday.
And there's something stunning about the peregrine falcon killing its prey through high-speed dives in mid-flight.
Just give them enough space to perform their swooping courtship displays and spectacular high-speed dives to spear their prey and a good supply of birds to fill their bellies and they will thrive almost anywhere.
Commander Street then took the Tirante out of the harbor at full speed and dived, eluding depth charges from a pursuing patrol.
On July 1st, Derek Jeter, in pursuit of Trot Nixon's pop inside third base, collars the ball at full speed and dives into the Stadium field boxes, with only his disappearing heels to mark the site of the crash.
By flying low and fast, jinking (making quick, irregular changes in direction and speed), or diving in a steep spiral, aircraft often succeeded in evading these weapons, but only at the price of spoiling the mission.
The controls had jammed on his Gloster E28, the testbed for Britain's spanking new jet engines, plunging the plane into a high-speed, spinning dive.
