Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-03-01 | Page 11 | Eagle is Still King of the Air

Eagle e Is Still King Kinge of the Air Experiments In France have shown that an eagle has lias no trouble at all Inie in ie keeping miles up art are W with hour r an but airplane can actually going M circle about It in flight and still catch It again with ease case The swiftest swift t est eat flying eagle easle Is credited with a speed ot of of at it least miles mlles an hour for ft a J short distance and probably c cnn beat this figure Some species of hawks are able to surpass miles an n hour Snipe can hit miles n a an On ah h hour rin In a pinch fn h Ordinarily aAr a partridge or a grouse flies at about fifty miles mlles an h hour ur but can raise the speed to at least eighty miles A homing pigeon ordinarily does not develop more mor than thirty-eight thirty miles an hour but It i Is h possible for it to increase this speed to seventy seventy five fIve miles Swallows and are I comparatively slow on the wing A swallows swallow's limit It of speed is two forty miles mile s an hour while the sparrow can hardly reach thirty thirty- The extreme limit of a horses horse's speed over the half mile half mile route is Just gust about forty mn miles s an hour This is figured carrying weight Without the weight the horse might be DC five miles an hour faster A greyhound can hardly do better than thirty miles an hour just about as fast as a a. hare can run A fox Is la much slower rarely hitting more than thirty-five thirty miles an hour flour A timber wolf has no great speed nearly all animals in his class can beat him and he can I get up no higher speed than twenty miles an hour An antelope can go two thirty-two to thirty-five thirty miles an I hour at his best beat speed A red deer is about equally as fast Those who win success bv by practise practise tise haven't time to preach IlU Illi Illinois I flOi nois State Journal