Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
This depends on where the coconut is imported from and if it comes into an EU country.

In order to find a coconut small enough for a European swallow to haul, it would need to be imported from India. Let's say it comes into Switzerland, then it will be subject to the MEIS scheme, rather than EORI.

These procedures are simpler, thus the airspeed velocity may not be impaired as much as you suspect TTR
That could be true, but would it conform to EU regulations of symmetry? If the coconut was not deemed true spherical, rather a compressed geodesic orb, then it's aero dynamic properties would change drag performance and the velocity of said swallow would be impaired. The same could be said involving the difference in air density across Europe. To declare a swallow travelling at a pre determined velocity with said coconut is false.