Re: Nuttin like hail...

Posted:
Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:14 am
by Nexus
Wow...that's scary. Cockpit glass are many layers thick, so talk about hard snowballs, eh ;D
Re: Nuttin like hail...

Posted:
Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:24 pm
by tsunami_KNUW
They must of been really big hailstones, eh

Re: Nuttin like hail...

Posted:
Fri Aug 06, 2004 3:58 pm
by Woodlouse2002
Doesn't suprise me. At 8000ft the hailstones are going to be pretty solid. And when the plane is going 500mph+ each one would almost be like a bullet. I doubt the effect would be much different if you fired a shotgun at the windscreen.
Re: Nuttin like hail...

Posted:
Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:51 am
by X56SB
it would had been scary to be the piolt :)