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It is amazing how a small bird can so quickly bring down a plane.

http://www.lookatentertainment.com/v/v-1541.htm


Dave

Saw that recently. What plane was it? obviously a single engined one. Maybe F-16?

What was the warning messages saying???  

Posted by: gn85 Posted on: Today at 3:48pm
What was the warning messages saying

YOU BETTER EJECT BUDDY OR YOU ARE TOAST!!!  :o

Dave

It's not that same F-15 vid I posted a few weeks ago is it? I can't access the site from my present location.

Not an F-16, not American... Canadian, NFTC CT-155 Hawk.
http://www.airforce.forces.gc.ca/dfs/do ... 5202_e.asp

thanks steveo

The CT-155 is nothing to do with the F-15, F-16 or F-anything else. It's the Canadian version of the BAe Hawk as used by the Red Arrows.

That'd be the one.  Going by memory, that was Friday, 14 May, 2004, in the mid-afternoon.  I had just got home from Vancouver and saw the emergency crews recovering the pilots, and the crumpled remains of the aircraft.  Just missed the event by about 10-15 minutes.

Another excuse to poison the pigeons in the park... aircraft and bird flu

What the hell does "T 6 NL" mean?(first warning) I thought all military engines had to be rated for bird strikes.

What the hell does "T 6 NL" mean?(first warning) I thought all military engines had to be rated for bird strikes.

It looked quite a large bird, and against a small engine like such as would be in the Hawk (Adour) then the chances of anything less than major engine damage are very small... Combine that with being a single engine type, and it's not going to be the crew's day...

Yesterday night one of our King Air charter flights exploded a bird all over the flippin right wing.  Unfortunately I was the one to clean it.

Some people have all the luck