Swallows Outroll Fighter Jets
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Roll rate of a highly acrobatic aircraft like A-4 Skyhawk is 720 deg/sec, a barn swallow can do in excess of 5000 deg/sec. Bats can reverse direction while maintaining forward speed in just 2 wing-beats in a distance less than half the wingspan. -From Underactuated Robtics notes