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Hail storm

PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:55 pm
by expat
Don't know if these have been posted before, but imagine being down the back with the sound of a ASBO-team taking their baseball bats to the aircraft.

EasyJet hail damage

Matt

Re: Hail storm

PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:57 pm
by Anark
Wow :o
It needs a "bit" of work done to it  ;D

Re: Hail storm

PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:56 pm
by Papa9571
Holy Cow Batman....... :o

Re: Hail storm

PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:58 pm
by Mobius

Re: Hail storm

PostPosted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:55 am
by Conan Edogawa
The late father of a friend of mine was piloting for Lufthansa in Germany (737 and later A310 and A300). Once upon a time a bird swarm crossed their approach line and some birds crashed into the nose of the a/c. They really had to land via IFR because all the blood flew over the cockpit glass! :o

Re: Hail storm

PostPosted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:57 am
by Craig.
The late father of a friend of mine was piloting for Lufthansa in Germany (737 and later A310 and A300). Once upon a time a bird swarm crossed their approach line and some birds crashed into the nose of the a/c. They really had to land via IFR because all the blood flew over the cockpit glass! :o

thats what co-pilots and a lot of tissues are for isn't it?

Re: Hail storm

PostPosted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:07 am
by Fozzer
WOWZERS...!

I wonder what the following year's Insurance Premium will be for the aircraft... :o...?

(Is it classed as an "Act of God on one of his bad days").... ::)....!

Paul... 8-)...!

Re: Hail storm

PostPosted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:10 am
by Woodlouse2002
The late father of a friend of mine was piloting for Lufthansa in Germany (737 and later A310 and A300). Once upon a time a bird swarm crossed their approach line and some birds crashed into the nose of the a/c. They really had to land via IFR because all the blood flew over the cockpit glass! :o

thats what co-pilots and a lot of tissues are for isn't it?

What about the windscreen wipers? :)

Re: Hail storm

PostPosted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:33 pm
by Craig.
The late father of a friend of mine was piloting for Lufthansa in Germany (737 and later A310 and A300). Once upon a time a bird swarm crossed their approach line and some birds crashed into the nose of the a/c. They really had to land via IFR because all the blood flew over the cockpit glass! :o

thats what co-pilots and a lot of tissues are for isn't it?

What about the windscreen wipers? :)

Again isn't that the other job title for the co-pilot? :)

Re: Hail storm

PostPosted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 8:14 pm
by fighter25
Holy crap! :o That would be scary to be the pilot!

Re: Hail storm

PostPosted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 12:25 pm
by expat
Holy crap! :o That would be scary to be the pilot!



Not really, he could see where he was going. The pucker factor is with the co-pilot. He can't see a thing and it traveling a high speed sat behind a significantly weakened window................Boss, I am just off for a quick pee, you have got it nicely covered here ;D

Matt

Re: Hail storm

PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:34 pm
by zeberdee
That's not too bad it should polish out with a bit of T-CUT  ;D ;D

Re: Hail storm

PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:32 pm
by expat
That's not too bad it should polish out with a bit of T-CUT  ;D ;D


Laughing aside, I was sent by my company to oversee a 737-800 "C" check a couple of years ago. The tail plane leading edge was very badly dented by a multiple bird strike, probably half as bad as this one. I thought that it was fit only for the scrap bin, by the time the metal workers had finished with it, you would never have known. I was amazed, though I think that this one IS a scrap candidate.

Matt

Re: Hail storm

PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:44 am
by PlutonianEmpire
I would freaking love to have been on those planes during those storms!  ;D

All my flights are boring with the pilot choosing to go around the storm instead of through it.  >:(