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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8752136" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>Based on tentative considerations, I am ballparking the following.</p><p></p><p>• The wingspan requires about one size larger.</p><p>• One must move a 30-foot line on foot, to achieve liftoff.</p><p>• The flight speed starts off at about walk speed 30.</p><p>• But it can eventually reach a cruising speed of say fly 300.</p><p></p><p>I am unsure what to do with these fast cruising speeds, but they are a reallife thing for birds and other flyers.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Here is the largest reallife animal to ever fly: the prehistoric <em>Quetzalcoatlus northropi</em>. It compares to the size of a (Huge) giraffe.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-2cf7e33b028f7ca5c77a3da615a780b5" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The head seems surprisingly large. But, roughly speaking, the wings here seem to need a wingspan about twice as wide as the creature is tall.</p><p></p><p>The flight speed of Quetzalcoatlus remains controversial, but credible estimates have upper speeds reaching 55 or 80 miles per hour, soaring and flapping for days at a time. The minimum flight speed of the Quetzalcoatlus maybe 10 miles per hour, where it starts to fall if slower than 10 miles per hour. (I am unsure how it achieves liftoff. Does it run? Dive?)</p><p></p><p>10 miles per hour is roughly 88 feet per 6 seconds, or at least speed 90.</p><p></p><p>55 miles per hour is roughly 80 feet per second, or speed 480. 80 miles per hour is roughly 117 feet per second, or roughly speed 700.</p><p></p><p>So the flight of the Quetzalcoatlus starts at roughly D&D speed 90 without hover, and can eventually reach maybe speed 600.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The largest flying bird alive today is Otis tarda, the great buzzard, whose males can reach (Small) almost 3½ feet tall with a wingspan of almost 9 feet. Here, the wingspan is a bit more than twice the height. It achieves flight speeds of upto 29.83 mph (43.74 ft/s, or 262 feet per 6 seconds) to 60.89 mph (89.31 ft/s, or 536 feet per 6 seconds). So in D&D terms, the upper speeds of the Otis is something between speed 270 to 540. As far as I can tell, the Otis needs to make a brief running start to achieve liftoff.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In D&D, a human can move 30 feet per 6 seconds, or 5 feet per second. This is about 3.4 miles per hour, which is a reasonably accurate human walking speed.</p><p></p><p>The dash action doubles this walk to speed 60, hence roughly 6.8 mph, which is comparable to a jog. The fastest human sprinters reach bursts of over 23 mph, 33.73 ft/s, or D&D speed 200. This extreme sprint is over 6x the walk speed, but average people can only reach about speed 120, which is 4x the walk speed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8752136, member: 58172"] Based on tentative considerations, I am ballparking the following. • The wingspan requires about one size larger. • One must move a 30-foot line on foot, to achieve liftoff. • The flight speed starts off at about walk speed 30. • But it can eventually reach a cruising speed of say fly 300. I am unsure what to do with these fast cruising speeds, but they are a reallife thing for birds and other flyers. Here is the largest reallife animal to ever fly: the prehistoric [I]Quetzalcoatlus northropi[/I]. It compares to the size of a (Huge) giraffe. [IMG]https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-2cf7e33b028f7ca5c77a3da615a780b5[/IMG] The head seems surprisingly large. But, roughly speaking, the wings here seem to need a wingspan about twice as wide as the creature is tall. The flight speed of Quetzalcoatlus remains controversial, but credible estimates have upper speeds reaching 55 or 80 miles per hour, soaring and flapping for days at a time. The minimum flight speed of the Quetzalcoatlus maybe 10 miles per hour, where it starts to fall if slower than 10 miles per hour. (I am unsure how it achieves liftoff. Does it run? Dive?) 10 miles per hour is roughly 88 feet per 6 seconds, or at least speed 90. 55 miles per hour is roughly 80 feet per second, or speed 480. 80 miles per hour is roughly 117 feet per second, or roughly speed 700. So the flight of the Quetzalcoatlus starts at roughly D&D speed 90 without hover, and can eventually reach maybe speed 600. The largest flying bird alive today is Otis tarda, the great buzzard, whose males can reach (Small) almost 3½ feet tall with a wingspan of almost 9 feet. Here, the wingspan is a bit more than twice the height. It achieves flight speeds of upto 29.83 mph (43.74 ft/s, or 262 feet per 6 seconds) to 60.89 mph (89.31 ft/s, or 536 feet per 6 seconds). So in D&D terms, the upper speeds of the Otis is something between speed 270 to 540. As far as I can tell, the Otis needs to make a brief running start to achieve liftoff. In D&D, a human can move 30 feet per 6 seconds, or 5 feet per second. This is about 3.4 miles per hour, which is a reasonably accurate human walking speed. The dash action doubles this walk to speed 60, hence roughly 6.8 mph, which is comparable to a jog. The fastest human sprinters reach bursts of over 23 mph, 33.73 ft/s, or D&D speed 200. This extreme sprint is over 6x the walk speed, but average people can only reach about speed 120, which is 4x the walk speed. [/QUOTE]
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