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Old 2nd Jun 2015, 14:18
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Centaurus
 
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Where I live there is a football field with tall arc lights. These poles are about 45 metres high.

Saw a magpie streaking at 12 inches above the field using ground effect and at amazingly high speed heading towards the base of one of the arc light poles. Then it simply pulled up with wings outstretched but not flapping and with perfect energy control arrived with landing gear extended at zero airspeed on the arm of the arc light. Beautiful to watch and the perfect climbing forced landing.
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