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Bird Strike

PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 3:07 am
by expat
Don't know if this is General Interest, Photography or Real Aviation, but it is a great picture......with the usual sensational reporting ::)

Bird Strike

Should be up for picture of the year :o

Matt

Re: Bird Strike

PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 3:35 am
by JakesF14
Awesome photo! talking about being at the right place at the right time with the right equipment!
wish I could zoom in to see the expression on the pilot's face!  ;D

Re: Bird Strike

PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 3:41 am
by Fozzer
200 starlings from my Back Garden never did make it, en-route South to Africa!... :'(...!

Lucky photo-shot!...;)..!

Paul... ;)...!

Re: Bird Strike

PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:52 am
by expat
200 starlings from my Back Garden never did make it, en-route South to Africa!... :'(...!

Lucky photo-shot!...;)..!

Paul... ;)...!


Shame it was not pigeons.......flying rats!

Matt

Re: Bird Strike

PostPosted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:25 pm
by OVERLORD_CHRIS
Geeez that looks crazy! You can see some of the blood out the  exhaust.

Re: Bird Strike

PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:47 am
by BFMF
That's a lot of birds...! :o

Re: Bird Strike

PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:53 am
by a1
That is impressive. Looks like those birds did good superficial damage to the plane. :o

Re: Bird Strike

PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 6:40 am
by skoker

Re: Bird Strike

PostPosted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:03 am
by Mazza

Re: Bird Strike

PostPosted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:30 am
by ApplePie

Jimmy strike! ;D

Re: Bird Strike

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:20 am
by Mazza
Image

:D :D :D

Re: Bird Strike

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:02 am
by H
200 starlings from my Back Garden never did make it, en-route South to Africa!...
Wasn't blackbird pie an old Anglo-Saxon recipe?


8-)

Re: Bird Strike

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 12:47 pm
by FsNovice
Excellent photo, shocking reporting though

The markings directly below him are believed to be pitot tubes which measure the speed of the aircraft as opposed to holes in the fuselage created by the birds


:o :o :o

Re: Bird Strike

PostPosted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:31 pm
by ManuelL
Excellent photo, shocking reporting though

The markings directly below him are believed to be pitot tubes which measure the speed of the aircraft as opposed to holes in the fuselage created by the birds


:o :o :o



A rare shot of the mythical pitot tubes of Germania  ;)

Re: Bird Strike

PostPosted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:38 pm
by skoker
I just wrote an English essay on this