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What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

From The Verge • Sep. 24, 2020

“What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 12, 2017

That's unladen, pulling nothing but its own weight, and it may be ambitious.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2015

The K-MAX was selected because it can carry over 2,700kg, which is more than its unladen weight.

From Economist • Sep. 13, 2012

The canes are about the size of a walking-stick, are cut off near the root, and laid in piles, separated from the tops, and then conveyed in carts to the sugar-mill, where they are unladen.

From History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time by Ballou, Maturin Murray