Every year, Jason Babbidge competes in the skate-sailing race on the two-and-a-half-mile-wide
glass surfaces left behind by slowly flying birds when they occassionally explode before
disappearing. This year’a race is not a win for Jason, but even worse is what happens when
his brother Daniel climbs aboard one of the birds afterwards.
— Michael Main
They were called slow birds because the flew through the air—at the stately pace of
three feet per minute.
They were called slow birds because the flew through the air—at the stately pace of
three feet per minute.
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