> I think it depend of the flyer strength, when you see some
> eagles able to lift rabbits, you can imagine, the comparative
> body weight are: royal eagle are around 4-5kg rabbits are around 4kg
>
> so looking at that a flyer could lift for relatively short
> distance its own weight.
>
> now of course this is not the common lifted weight, i would
> say limited to 1/10 of your own weight for long distance, so
> not much more than one weapon and for sure no metallic armor.
Makes perfect sense to me, thanks.
How about speed? I don't think we want them flying as fast as eagles, do
we? Faster than walking? Than running? Than a galloping horse?