How does the airspeed of a laden swallow compare to that of an unladen swallow?

What is the airspeed of a coconut laden swallow?

It was a Monty Python joke. A real swallow could not carry coconuts. However, the airspeed of an unladen swallow is 24 miles per hour.

What is the meaning of laden and unladen weights?

Laden = fully loaded Unladen = empty

Is the placard air pressure at laden or unladen?

Typically unladen.

What is the laden and unladen weight of a1996 ford escort van?

what is the unladen weight of a ford escort 1.8 D van

What is the wing velocity of an African hummingbird?

I always heard the question as wingspan, not wing velocity, but either way, there is no hummingbird named the African Hummingbird (although there is a moth known as the African Hummingbird Moth). If you want actual info on hummingbirds, a hummingbirds wings will beat about seventy (70) times per second while in regular flight and up to 200 times per second when diving.

What is the definition of 'unladen'?

The word "unladen" refers to being unburdened by weight or unencumbered. It is the opposite of "laden" which would mean a heavy load or a large quantity of something.

How long would it take for an African swallow to fly to the moon?

It depends on if it is carrying a coconut or not. An unladen swallow can fly at about 10 meters per second. It is 384,400 kilometers to the moon, so it would take the swallow 1 year, 2 months, 18 days, 18 hours, 59 minutes and 46 seconds to get there. A fully laden swallow would take longer.

What is the maximum laden weight of a truck that has unladen weight of 12 tons?

14 tonne 14 tonne

What is the airspeed velocity of a sparrow?

The mass of a sparrow ranges from about 12 g to 42 g. For more information, please see the Related Link below.

What is the average foot size of a five-year-old boy?

Is that the African or European five-year-old boy? Also, is the five-year-old boy laden or unladen? The average foot size of a laden five-year-old boy can increase from one-half to one full size, depending on the time of day of the measurement. Measuring later in the day will result in a larger average foot size for both laden and unladen five-year-old boys. However the difference will always be lesser for unladen five-year-old boys.

What is the forward velocity of a laden swallow and how does this compare to the unladen swallow of Monty Python fame?

An unladen swallow may fly at around 11meters per second, but common sense suggests that if the swallow is carrying extra mass (i.e. is laden, and not too heavily) it will have to work harder just to stay in the air, and will have less capacity to make forward progress through the air. Christoph Schiller, author of the Motion Mountain free physics text book, reproduces a graph (on page 41 in the 21st version) by Henk Tennekes (probably from his book The Simple Science of Flight: From Insects to Jumbo Jets) that appears to show that there is a direct relationship between wing loading and cruising speed for both birds and aircraft, such that higher wing loadings are directly related to higher cruising speed. I queried Schiller on this point and was brushed off. It seems to me that, in the case of any particular model of fixed-wing aircraft, a heavier load (giving a higher wing loading) increases the craft's weight and the wings would have to operate at a higher angle of attack in order to generate more lift for the same airspeed. The higher angle of attack would give rise to more drag which would tend to slow the craft down, assuming that the thrust remained the same. So there you have it. Christoph Schiller (a physicist) seems to quote Henk Tennekes (supposedly an expert in aerodynamics, and part-time climate-change skeptic) as claiming the velocity would be higher in the laden case, whereas common sense and my high-school physics suggests that a heavily laden flyer will make slower forward progress. 12.2 feet per second :) depending on whether it's African or European.

How much does a double decker weigh?

Well a double decker bus weigh's 7.7 tons unladen but is 11.10tons laden -Penguin52738- (Nick Baston).