A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas

Re:A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas by hadlock on Friday September 24, 2021 @10:28PM (#28649933)

Every year or two, people decide to fly from North America to Europe in a short range Cessna. They get the extra fuel tankage package, then hop from PEI to Greenland, Greenland to Iceland, then Iceland to.... Svalbard, or maybe somewhere in the Scotish Isles. From there it's pretty standard flight operations over local bodies of water. If a Cessna can do it, that's well within a bird's migratory travel distance.

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Re:A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas by EamonnMR on Friday September 24, 2021 @10:54PM (#28650056)

Yeah but you think they'd save fuel and locally source the twigs

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Re:A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas by scythe on Saturday September 25, 2021 @01:52AM (#28650840)

Possibly not if the goal is to impress a potential mate.

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Re:A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas by heavenlyblue on Saturday September 25, 2021 @07:58AM (#28652422)

Have you just invented this or is that actually some well-known fact that birds impress potential mates this way?

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Re:A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas by washadjeffmad on Saturday September 25, 2021 @08:48AM (#28652740)

The joke is that the Cessna fliers are doing it to collect the twigs.

If you edit out 'birds', it'd be pure comedy.

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Re:A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas by repiret on Saturday September 25, 2021 @12:43AM (#28650619)

I was under the impression that was still the standard way to move GA aircraft across the Atlantic, and happened regularly.

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