Bird VS Airplane.. (graphic .. weak stomach be warned)

[bottom_sucker]

Great pics! Thanks.

 

[TCDiver1]

Can you image? Sitting in your seat, having a toddy, minding your own business and you hear a thunk outside your window. You look out at the wing and see this!

Gives me the yips just thinking about it.

 

[Genesis]

Glad nobody (other than the bird) was hurt...

 

[DennisW]

They do not mix very well. Usually the bird gets the bad end of the deal. My wife is a flight instructor. Once near Melbourne Florida, while she had a student doing turns about a point, they hit a turkey vulture. Thank goodness it hit the inside leasing edge of the wing and not the canopy or out near the fuel tanks. The bird put a large hole in the wing, very similar to the one in the picture. Not a pretty sight.

 

[-BlueHole-]

lol...
birds are dangerous

 

[Genesis]

the bird

 

[jbd]

to fly I had a collision with a turkey vulture. Lost the windshield of the C-172 and the bird didn't fair too well either--it was splattered all over me, the inside of the aircraft with bits and pieces stuck to the outside of the aircraft.

 

[s.wright]

gedunk once bubbled...
Can you image? Sitting in your seat, having a toddy, minding your own business and you hear a thunk outside your window. You look out at the wing and see this!

Gives me the yips just thinking about it.

Can you imagine being the bird?

 

[Rick Murchison]

JamesK once bubbled...
For those of you who don't know, I work in aircraft maintenance for Delta. We recently recieved these pics from another airline whose a/c we are going to fix. This is what happens when a bird meets and airplane.

*Warning, do not click on these pcitures if you have a weak stomach, they are pretty nasty.*

Close... but that's no airliner. That's the starboard horizontal stab of a T44 at NAS Corpus Christi. The unfortunate avian is a turkey vulture.
Rick

 

[jbd]

with the dreaded turkey vulture in one thread. Turkey vultures need to be banned from flying.