Gravity is an extra important dimension with my example of the African Swallow carrying 2 coconuts under its wings. BUT, consider if the coconuts are filled with a replacement synthetic juice of a lighter specific gravity than stock. If the coconuts are also of irregular shape and well skinned plus arranged carefully under the birds plumage they may actually enhance lift at elevated dive speeds. If the bird goes supersonic even better. So the extra lift created may more than offset the weight and therefore inertia penalty and allow a much tighter trajectory when pulling out of a dive.
A leaf could also be taken from the 1972 model year March 721X Formula 1 car that tried to minimise polar moment of inertia with mass centralisation.
( Sorry to be so flippant but this thread needed perverse hunour, especially after Jimmy, Drew and Poos went off on an inertia tangent. That Monty Python sketch always made me giggle )
Oh thats just simple logic..........obviously as the coconuts are heavy and causing a downward motion............then logic dictates that if the bird rolls over so the coconuts are pointing upwards then that is the direction it will follow.
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