Hi,

So, suppose a hamster escaped the machine-gun thread-mill in mid-flight - commonly known at the time as "jamming the gun", though nowadays the expression "jumping the gun" seems more popular - and let itself drop down from the aircraft. Would it indeed fall to its death, or would gravity lose its fight with air resistance?

And does it matter whether the hamster had, at the start of the flight, been employed to aid the flying machine in taking off from a moving surface?

Bye,
                                                                  Mysha