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lane
 
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Default Bullets falling back to earth


"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
.net...
BTW, if you find this entertaining, here's some newer data, based on

Doppler
radar research:

http://www.nennstiel-ruprecht.de/bullfly/anom.htm

Ed Huntress



This same web site that Ed quoted does have info on "falling bullets" at
http://www.nennstiel-ruprecht.de/bullfly/faq.htm#Q1 Third question from the
bottom. He does qualify his answer, but says that a military SS109 (whatever
that is) has a terminal velocity of 404 ft/sec. I wouldn't want to be hit by
that, would you?

Lane