VH-KDK Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Something pretty big hit this 757. A good one for the conspiracy theorists. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-29/nba-oklahoma-thunder-stunned-by-major-plane-damage/9097020 Maybe it ran into another planes "chemtrails." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradB Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 To be called the OKC Thunder and then be hit by a tiny little bird , a humbling experience for sure . Cheers John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 To be honest, that part of the nose is not made of steel, so the impact must not have been so hard. Maybe the pilot just did the same what I always do when parking my car in a small lot ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taph Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Thunderbirds are go. That'll teach them not to but heads with the Bulls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Thank goodness our talented specialist ORBX developers haven't thought of this yet. Can you imagine it--hitting a goose the size of a Jeep in the fog while flying the valleys of Papua New Guinea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Pilot Posted November 2, 2017 Share Posted November 2, 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_by_flight_heights The common Crane flies at 30Kft and is large enough to cause this damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Sawyer Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 I've seen this many times through the years on radomes. They're fiberglass so they either dent in like this or shatter. All depends on how fast they were going. I could write a whole book of the stuff I've seen us repair. One really stands out because it was so creepy. A 737 got hit by maybe six seagulls on the left front part of the plane just aft of the radome, right below the pilot. What was creepy was there was no real damage but the birds left ghostly imprints where they hit, the detail was amazing, right down to the feathers and the beaks. And you should see what hail can do! That was the most common, next most common was ground vehicles hitting the planes. We were kept real busy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spud Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Struck a bird at night 1500' over Hampton Rhodes, VA. Hit the top frame of windscreen. Most damage was primarily to my underware!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike707 Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Imagine if the impact would have been just a little bit higher. That could have been a horrible disaster. Thank God it ended the way it did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Pilot Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 Back in '56 while on a search and rescue mission looking for a couple of missing Airforce interceptors during a driving rain about 50 miles up Cheasepeake Bay when I heard a PBY Pilot call in for permission to head for the NAS Norfolk Seaplane Base. He said that they had hit a Buzzard which took out the co-pilots windshield, covered his co-pilot with blood and buzzard guts and they were taking on so much rainwater that he was afraid that they would sink if he remained on station. They made it back, hosed off his co-pilot and sent him to sickbay. Listening to him call in and report that he had to stop flying because he was sinking was something that only a flying boat pilot would do, It brought a little humor to an otherwise terrible day. All in all, it was a horrible day for the Airforce. They lost several F86D's during that exercise. It was to test their readiness to repel a mass bomber attack that SAC flew against the East Coast. Dale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Sawyer Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 5 hours ago, Gypsy Pilot said: Back in '56 while on a search and rescue mission looking for a couple of missing Airforce interceptors during a driving rain about 50 miles up Cheasepeake Bay when I heard a PBY Pilot call in for permission to head for the NAS Norfolk Seaplane Base. He said that they had hit a Buzzard which took out the co-pilots windshield, covered his co-pilot with blood and buzzard guts and they were taking on so much rainwater that he was afraid that they would sink if he remained on station. They made it back, hosed off his co-pilot and sent him to sickbay. Listening to him call in and report that he had to stop flying because he was sinking was something that only a flying boat pilot would do, It brought a little humor to an otherwise terrible day. All in all, it was a horrible day for the Airforce. They lost several F86D's during that exercise. It was to test their readiness to repel a mass bomber attack that SAC flew against the East Coast. Dale What an interesting story Dale, thanks for that. I love stories like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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