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JayhawkSD

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6. Just FYI about the Cheetah

Reply to WillParkinson (Original post)

Tue Nov 4, 2014, 01:56 PM

Nov 2014

The real elegance of the Cheetah is not so much the way it is engineered for speed, which it certainly is, but the way it is engineered to make high speed changes of direction while at speed without losing any momentum. Running animals mostly slow down quite a lot while changing direction, and the Cheetah is unique in its ability to make sharp changes in direction virtually without losing any speed at all.

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