L382fe Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Whole crew heard the Nav scream when this came at him Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L382fe Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Darn, the photo didn\'t upload Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC10FE Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Mike, Check the size -- that\'s usually the problem when I try to upload a photo. Don R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Wilson Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 Casey wrote: Dan were you on 993 when it took 18 birds in Turkey? Nope, that one was Hutch and Randy Lawson was the pilot. Don\'t remember the rest of the crew but it was a mess, a buttload of Cranes deciding they want to mate with the humpy (well it wasn\'t a humpy no more after that flight huh?) Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keepemflying130 Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 Buddy of mine at work tells a story that cracks me up. Keep in mind that he will tend to \"tell a story\" from time to time. Anyway...he was working TA and they had an IFE from an A-10 that was doing low levels. Bird strike. When the thing got in and everyone gathered to survey the bird damage...it ended up being a RABBIT sticking out the the LE. RABBIT strike. Now THAT is some low level training. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donwon Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 It musta been one of them Rabbits that we had at Amarillo. I know they could jump over 6\' high. Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L382fe Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Was working graveshift while TDY to Mildenhall and at about sunrise, a KC-135R was taxiing out when a rabbit decided it wanted to get to the other side of the taxiway. It made it past 1&2 and under the aircraft but when it got in front of #3, it just disappeared. Called MOC and after engine blade wipedown, the 135 still made an ontime. I\'ve heard of using chickens to test engine blades but never rabbits. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quietus Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 My unit had a plane go through a flock of birds after a max effort T/O from a short LZ. About 50 feet, and #2 flamed out, and #1 rolled back. The crew did a phenomenal job keeping the plane flying and were able to get the plane on the ground safely. My best was doing a stop and go, just prior to the go call we heard a bang, saw a flash, and #3 started rolling back. We rejected, and as we completed the reject #3 came back up on speed. We taxied clear to check out the engine and had base ops check out the runway for any FOD. All they found was a fish. They asked us if we wanted to record a fish strike. After shut down and the mx inspection, they found a sea bird that had a fish in its grip when it hit us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casey Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 They asked us if we wanted to record a fish strike. Now that\'s funny.:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damnpoor Posted March 21, 2008 Author Share Posted March 21, 2008 We had another one a few days ago - the crew was doing pilot pro and thought they took a bird on approach. The eng and load got out and looked over the plane at the end of the runway and saw nothing, so they kept flying. After they landed during the thruflight we found a bird that had hit the strut itself and got stuck in a wire bundle in the wheel well. It\'s that time of year I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjvr99 Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Several bases in South Africa are well out of town, and have large populations of gazzelle and warthog. These end up in engines and undercarriages from time to time. In an attempt to keep these animals away from the runways and taxiways, cheetah are released into the base areas. At least one cheetah has been killed on the runway, and several takeoffs/landings aborted. The overall number of animal incedents has been significantly reduced though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjvr99 Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Taken around 1987, aircraft hit a hawk just after rotation at FADN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
US Herk Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Just put a big ol\' dent down the first third of our left external tank the other night... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalonFlyboy8336 Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 I\'ve had several bird strikes through my years flying , a few really bad ones were 1 through teh co pilots window, took out the co, fe and nav, after getting the mess under control i got in co seat and helped pilot land, another was a big albatross in the leading edge between # 3 & # 4 engines on an H model on the way to greenland, and another on that bubble contraption at red flag, thankfully no 1 had there head up there when we took the bird strike. Birds can be quite the dangerous thing when were flying../.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mongo Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 Ok so we got birds rabbits and test chickens. We had a 757 here in denver about 3 years ago suck up a coyote at takeoff power just beggining his roll. there a mess for ya. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Well, Not a 130, but an ugly shot of a C-141 birdstrike.... [img size=800]http://herkybirds.com/images/fbfiles/images/C_141_Birdstrike.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjvr99 Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 ..... bet that messed up the radar picture ..... :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APUnit Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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