My dad had a bird strike when he was in jet training school. Didn't know it until a couple days later and he went to fly again. Took a hit of the ram air system and barfed. Seems the bird he hit broke a crack in the front of the wing right in front of the air inlet system, and spattered everywhere. Baked three days in the hot desert sun and it took disassembling the wing and pressure spraying it to remove most of the bird.
Hey sorry, didn't know his dad was Capt. Sullenberger. The story is still bullshit.
First of all "jet trainers are relatively small," so how do you take a strike on the leading edge of a wing and not know? Second, wtf is a ram air system? Pilot tube , engine inlet cowl, ram air turbine? What? A Crack somewhere near or on the leading edge of the wing and someone leaves the aircraft sitting in the sun for three days? What kind of outfit is this guy training with? I've work on and around business, commercial, and military jets my entire 40+ year aviation maintenance and engineering career. I've seen an F-111 take a radome hit by an eagle, a KC135 take three ducks through its radome and WX antenna pedestal, a tanker swallow a large hawk in an engine just prior to landing, Md 80 with the First Officer's windscreen fractured, and saw through my window seagulls getting splattered on the fowler flaps on an older 727. I have lots of flight test seat time, when something hits your craft at those speeds you'll know it. //Bullshit Flagger
See, now wouldn't it have been nice to just say all that in your first comment rather than the standard asshole response of "Throwing out the bullshit flag on this one"?
No asshole, I think almost everyone here thought it was bullshit. Seems that the only thing you know about airplanes is that you can buy a ticket and crawl on one. //Bullshit Flagger
Oh, fuck you. I never claimed to be an expert on planes or anything else, now did I? And quit trying to impress me with a tough guy act while hiding behind an anonymous tag on the internet.
I took a number of birds down the intake on final going into Houston. Smelled like someone was frying up a pan of wet feathers. Pretty fowl, so to speak. The engine was still full of that crap when we got to the gate.
I was taking off from Allegheny County airport in a Cessna 172 and just as I was lifting off I saw a bird coming towards the plane and it was coming right at me! My one in a million event happened when the bird hit the tip of the prop and went sailing into space like a rocket. After I did a go around and landed, I checked the prop and the was no damage. Lucky me. Mufflerking.
No, the crew chief can now make whoever is on his shit list clean it up. (I'm a former civilian crew chief on airplanes) Helicopters don't fly, they're so ugly and noisy the earth repels them. Al_in_Ottawa
My mother always told me when I was walking around all tough, "There is always someone bigger." Looking at the talons, a bird of prey hits a bird of prey."
I had a Great Horned Owl strike the passenger side windshield of my Kenworth at 3:30am once. The windshield sustained less damage than the Owl or my heart incurred that morning.
Looks like a bird strike. And from the pad, might be Ft Lewis. If so, WA DNR will try to slap a fine on the pilot for smoking an “endangered” bird.
ReplyDeleteMy dad had a bird strike when he was in jet training school. Didn't know it until a couple days later and he went to fly again. Took a hit of the ram air system and barfed. Seems the bird he hit broke a crack in the front of the wing right in front of the air inlet system, and spattered everywhere. Baked three days in the hot desert sun and it took disassembling the wing and pressure spraying it to remove most of the bird.
ReplyDeleteBird strikes are not fun.
Throwing out the bullshit flag on this story.
DeleteWhat's so unbelievable about it, bullshit flagger?
DeleteHey sorry, didn't know his dad was Capt. Sullenberger. The story is still bullshit.
DeleteFirst of all "jet trainers are relatively small," so how do you take a strike on the leading edge of a wing and not know? Second, wtf is a ram air system? Pilot tube , engine inlet cowl, ram air turbine? What? A Crack somewhere near or on the leading edge of the wing and someone leaves the aircraft sitting in the sun for three days? What kind of outfit is this guy training with? I've work on and around business, commercial, and military jets my entire 40+ year aviation maintenance and engineering career.
I've seen an F-111 take a radome hit by an eagle, a KC135 take three ducks through its radome and WX antenna pedestal, a tanker swallow a large hawk in an engine just prior to landing, Md 80 with the First Officer's windscreen fractured, and saw through my window seagulls getting splattered on the fowler flaps on an older 727. I have lots of flight test seat time, when something hits your craft at those speeds you'll know it.
//Bullshit Flagger
See, now wouldn't it have been nice to just say all that in your first comment rather than the standard asshole response of "Throwing out the bullshit flag on this one"?
DeleteNo asshole, I think almost everyone here thought it was bullshit. Seems that the only thing you know about airplanes is that you can buy a ticket and crawl on one.
Delete//Bullshit Flagger
Oh, fuck you. I never claimed to be an expert on planes or anything else, now did I? And quit trying to impress me with a tough guy act while hiding behind an anonymous tag on the internet.
DeleteI don't see how you deal with these self righteous idiots day in and day out, Kenny.
Delete@Bullshit Flagger: The only thing worse than an asshole is one with a superiority complex. Yes, I'm talking about you.
Delete~JasonM
Bird strikes suck
ReplyDeleteThe answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind?
ReplyDeleteBird strike! We get seagulls and man do they smell in the summer.
ReplyDeleteDid the bird survive?
ReplyDeleteSurprised you posted that, considering the soundtrack.
ReplyDeleteWe all have to make sacrifices, Snuffy.
DeleteYes, the bird survived but for the rest of it's life it identified as a helicopter.
DeleteI took a number of birds down the intake on final going into Houston. Smelled like someone was frying up a pan of wet feathers. Pretty fowl, so to speak. The engine was still full of that crap when we got to the gate.
ReplyDeleteMatt
SwA CFM56? Bet most of the bird went through the bypass and not core. Did they still borescope?
DeleteIs it bird strikes plane or plane strikes bird? Asking for an analytic philosopher friend.
ReplyDeleteI can answer that question, if you can tell me what direction the bird was flying relative to the aircraft's vector.
Delete"What's your vector, Victor?"
Delete"Surely you can't be serious."
"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."
I was taking off from Allegheny County airport in a Cessna 172 and just as I was lifting off I saw a bird coming towards the plane and it was coming right at me! My one in a million event happened when the bird hit the tip of the prop and went sailing into space like a rocket. After I did a go around and landed, I checked the prop and the was no damage. Lucky me. Mufflerking.
ReplyDeleteAnd the crew chief is really pissed off because he or she has to clean it up
ReplyDeleteNo, the crew chief can now make whoever is on his shit list clean it up. (I'm a former civilian crew chief on airplanes)
DeleteHelicopters don't fly, they're so ugly and noisy the earth repels them.
Al_in_Ottawa
My mother always told me when I was walking around all tough, "There is always someone bigger." Looking at the talons, a bird of prey hits a bird of prey."
ReplyDeleteI had a Great Horned Owl strike the passenger side windshield of my Kenworth at 3:30am once. The windshield sustained less damage than the Owl or my heart incurred that morning.
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