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To be surrounded by dozens of squawking, hissing sea birds with 10 ft wingspans was one thing, but add to that a pod of 600 acrobatic dusky dolphins and you had a wildlife spectacle to rival anything on earth.
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That would have been a huge wingspan for a bird, much less for a bat.
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He said engineers want to build a vehicle with a 1 - inch wingspan, possibly made elastic material.
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Experts on the red kite - a spectacular bird with a wingspan of up to 6ft - say it is essentially a scavenger which feeds on carrion rather than attacking sheep or game birds.
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These tall thin birds have long necks, bills, and legs and a very wide wingspan.
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The adult of the raspberry crown borer is a clearwing moth with a wingspan of 1 1/4 inches.
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Adult hornworms are huge grayish brown moths with wingspans of up to five inches.
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Gulfstream said it would achieve the additional 500 nm to 600 nm by increasing the wingspan of the GIV-SP and incorporating the winglets that were then being designed for the GV.
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Great teratorn birds with 25-foot wingspans stalked prey.
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The presence of a bird with a wingspan of around 1.5m must have been very distressing.
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Its fine sandy beach runs the length of its 40 km wingspan, and just under a million Germans holiday here every year, so why is it that we Brits haven't even heard of it?
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Swans are large birds with a wingspan of four feet or more and although injuries to humans are rare they are not unknown.
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Thirty-eight hours and nearly 1,900 miles later, the 11-pound plane with a six-foot wingspan landed in Ireland, the first radio-controlled model to make a trans-Atlantic crossing.
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Brown pelicans and frigatebirds with vast wingspans soar on the Leeward thermals, and laughing gulls cackle.
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Dozens of griffon vultures with wingspans of up to 2.80 metres were spotted in the south of the Netherlands on Monday.
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Rufforth Airfield has been hosting the Yorkshire Air Spectacular, with flying model craft ranging in size from miniatures to monsters with a 25 ft wingspan.
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The limpkin is about 23-28 inches in length with a wingspan of about 42 inches.
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The Swainson's Hawk is a slender buteo, similar in length to the Red-tailed Hawk, but with a longer wingspan and weighing about 20% less.
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She turned around to face a gigantic brown bird with talons three times the size of her hand and a wingspan of at least ten feet.
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Known locally as solan geese, gannets are Britain's biggest seabird, having a wingspan of up to six feet.
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A vast one, with a 6ft wingspan.
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Sandhill Cranes are big birds, with long legs and necks, long pointed beaks, and wingspans which can be over six feet.
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The sea eagle - a fearsome hunter with an eight-foot wingspan - is to return to time many people heard the word raptor was when they were watching the movie "Jurassic Park," but raptors are very much alive in our world Some of Scotland's rarest birds are being displaced by wind turbine developments, a study has suggested.
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Its sharp talons and eyesight, and a wingspan of up to two metres, makes it the ideal hunter.
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Carried by the longest wingspans of any bird, they soar for thousands of miles without ever setting webbed foot on land.
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A good rule of thumb when buying or constructing a flight cage for large parrots is that the width should be twice the wingspan, plus a handspan.
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The bird has a 1 - metre wingspan.
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Its sharp talons and eyesight, and a wingspan of up to two metres, makes it the ideal hunter.
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The surface area of the wings is tremendous and the wingspan large, but the relative length of the fuselage is shorter than most other aircraft of its era.
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With a wingspan of three feet or more, flying foxes are the largest mammals capable of sustained flight.
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The finished design was thirty meters long with a wide wingspan.
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Measuring up at nearly 5 feet tall, and native to the East African White Nile marshes, the shoebill has a wingspan of as much as 10 feet -- and a reputation for violent nocturnal feedings of fish, turtles, baby birds, and small crocodiles; however, with as few as 5,000 left in the world, the
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With its 56-inch wingspan, a mature female red-tailed hawk can weigh up to four pounds and dive for the kill at 120mph.
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The bat they studied was the gray-headed flying fox, about the size of a small chihuahua and sporting a nearly four-foot wingspan.
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Herring gulls have a 1.5 metre wingspan and are naturally bold.
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The noctule bat's wingspan can reach up to 19 inches, although, like all British varieties, it is totally harmless.
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Is the wingspan of the wandering albatross really as impossibly wide as that bottom plank?
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To be surrounded by dozens of squawking, hissing sea birds with 10 ft wingspans was one thing, but add to that a pod of 600 acrobatic dusky dolphins and you had a wildlife spectacle to rival anything on earth.
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It ` s the double crested cormorant; it has a majestic wingspan, it ` s a guanay bird, its primary diet is marine life - and there isn ` t much more that you will care to know assuming you were the least bit curious about any of that.
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With a 500-foot wingspan, the aircraft is designed to fly at just 20 feet above the sea, giving it a longer range - up to 10,000 nautical miles over water.
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They include the largest known bats; Indonesian flying foxes may have wingspans of up to six feet (two meters).
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The adult of the raspberry crown borer is a clearwing moth with a wingspan of 1 1/4 inches.
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I later surmised, from the Turkish-military aircraft parked in the revetments, that this taxiway was for military aircraft with a short wingspan.
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This catapult-launched spy plane has a 10-foot wingspan and is 4 feet long, and can stay in the air for more than 20 hours.
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It was a supreme moment when a wandering albatross, the bird with the largest wingspan of any bird, arrived!
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In 1899 they built a little five-foot wingspan biplane kite to test out their control system.
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The hydrogen-fueled aircraft has a wingspan of approximately 5 feet, measures 12 feet long and weighs about 2,800 pounds.
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The 5ft-wingspan model could lead to the development of pilotless aircraft that can stay aloft indefinitely.
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With a three-foot wingspan and two long, streaming tail feathers, these birds are easy to recognize.
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Experts on the red kite - a spectacular bird with a wingspan of up to 6ft - say it is essentially a scavenger which feeds on carrion rather than attacking sheep or game birds.
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The giant weta is a cricket-like creature with a wingspan of close to seven inches.
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When this maneuver is properly executed, you can literally turn within one wingspan.
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Wingspan: 114 ft 0 in (34.76 m) Height: 23 ft 10 in (7.27 m) Wing area: 1875 ft² (174.3 m²)
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The system used in the trial -- the Gateway-Wingspan intracranial angioplasty and stenting system, made by Stryker Corp. -- is the only system approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA for certain high-risk stroke patients.
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With a three-foot wingspan and two long, streaming tail feathers, these birds are easy to recognize.
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General characteristics Crew: Six Capacity: 138000 kg (304233 lb) of fuel Length: 46.59 m (152 ft 10 in) Wingspan: 50.50 m (165 ft 8 in) Height: 14.76 m (37 ft 1 in) Wing area: 300 m² (3230 ft²)
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Their beaks look vicious, and any bird that has a 10ft wingspan has to be considered dangerous in its own element.
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Herring gulls have a 1.5 metre wingspan and are naturally bold.
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The air vehicle is a low wing monoplane with a wingspan of 3.42m, length 2.29m and height 0.96m.
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It's the largest wading bird in North America, standing up to five feet tall with a wingspan of almost eight feet.
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A substantial part of the lift generated by the forward-swept wing occurs at the inner portion of the wingspan.
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Eggs from the fish-eating osprey, a magnificent bird of prey with a six-foot wingspan, are particularly highly-prized because of their distinctive markings.
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The shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) is a large bird (4 feet tall, wingspan of 7.7 feet) that hails from tropical east Africa.
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The Andean condor, one of the world's largest flying birds, soars on ten-foot (three-meter) wingspans and can weigh up to 33 pounds.
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Falconids are medium-sized to large birds of prey (wingspan 55 to more than 125 cm, weight 28 to 2100 g), typically with hooked beaks, large brown eyes and a yellow cere, eyerings and feet.
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As big as a goose and with a six-foot wingspan, the southern giant petrel nests throughout the Antarctic continent (as well as on several subantarctic islands).
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This bird has a bald, red face that only a mother could love, but it boasts an incredible nine-foot wingspan and a majesty in flight that rivals any raptor.
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In some areas of Australia, jabirus are also known as policeman-birds because of their black and white colouring and straight, very upright stance. At over 1.2 metres tall and with a wingspan of 2.2 metres, they are among Australia's largest birds.
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Length: 15.27 m (50.1 ft) Wingspan: 10.80 m (35.4 ft) Height: 5.34 m (17.5 ft) Wing area: 45.7 m² (492 ft²) Empty weight: 9500 kg (C), 9770 kg (B) ,10196 kg (M) () Max takeoff weight: 24500 kg (C/D), 22200 kg (M) (54000 lb) Powerplant: 2× Snecma M88-2 turbofans Dry thrust: 50.04 kN
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Herring gulls have a 1.5 metre wingspan and are naturally bold.
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With its 30-meter wingspan, it was considered too bulky, even for the Norwegian Museum in Oslo.
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No one should miss the tiny island that is home to a siege of herons whose impressive wingspans are revealed when the majestic birds take flight.
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With their enormous wingspan - over 3 metres in the larger birds - the Pelican takes off from the water by facing upwind and running along the surface with its webbed feet while stretching out its wings.
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The American White Pelican is a huge white bird with a nine-foot wingspan.
