Warbird Information Exchange

A friend of mine sent me this interesting photo from those people down under ( neat rhythm there hehe )

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6082301

Imagine that FOD in a warbird in WW2 must of been a nasty thing to clean up.

I've been involved in removing flight control quadrants and other equipment from the nose compartment of a 767 that hit several geese on climbout. One penetrated the fuselage aft of the radome on the airplane commander's side and pieces of Mr. Goose made it into the cockpit! Removing parts of airplane to make room for the structures gurus while finding several-day-old parts of a goose on a 100 degree Texas day is somewhat less than fun.

Scott

I pulled the remains of a hawk out of the inside of the left wing of the CAF's Corsair several years ago, while working at Nelson's place. He made his way through the leading edge and dang near halfway inside the wing (it was towards the outboard end of the outer wing panel). That wasn't much fun either.

Gary

I knew I had some photos somewhere of that stinky mess:




The geese intercepted the airplane at 12,000 feet during climbout and the flight crew decided to return to the airport(it was kind of drafty in the pointy end of the airplane)!!! There was also slat and fixed leading edge damage, tail dents, etc. The last two photos are where I got to swim for a few days after the ferry flight.

Scott

Here is a shot of Fuddy Duddy just after a bird strike at Chino this year. Notice the right wing, about half way between the outside engine and the wing tip. That was a turkey vulture, by the way. I saw it about three weeks later and it looked great, good as new.

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5987304

Dang..was that AGL? I didn't know geese flew that high. It's amazing that even at such a high (or would that be low) angle of impact they still penatrated rather than glancing off.

SN

when I was in VA-128 we had a A-6E doing a night low level into Boardman. They hit a Turkey Vulture and 380 kts and it penetrated
the pilot's section of the wind screen. The BN reached over of grabbed the stick to get some altitude. The pilot shook the cobwebs off and dusted himself off (so to speak) and they RTBed. That was one ugly mess!

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I know of a certain Mustang that now sports a small graphic of a pelican with the universal "NO" slash superimposed. With good reason. That bird came through the prop and ended up in the cockpit. Feathers, fish and guts everywhere...

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I don't the story behind these pictures, but I do know it's a C-130. Someone sent them to me. The pilot has a Idaho ANG patch.

A guy in my squadron had a birdstrike in a T-38 at 18,000'.

Ready4Duty has at least one bird kill on it. Never did get the story behind it, but next time you see it, take a look under the captain's window. Each one has a real story behind it. I just wish we had them on the website.

At work I nailed a rabbit with the nose wheel during the takeoff roll just as we reached V1. Plenty messy.
My write up in the log was "please remove what is left of the Easter Bunny from the nose gear well and belly"
Nailed a few small birds with no damage (well, to the aircraft anyway)
Went through a swarm of bees once. Just after rotation and the windshield was smeared with a bajillion unknown large bugs. About ten seconds later a lovely smell came through the presure vessel. Since the engines were running fine we continued. After landing we had the nacelles opened and discovered the unknown large bugs were bees and the smell, as we surmised, was the bees burning in the combustion section.

Evergreen's FG-1D had a bird strike in the wing a few years back.
They happened to be giving a free reward ride at the time and sent
the bill for repairs to the PAX (who told them to shove it!).
True story!!!!

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That sucks!

My Squadrons ate a few Sea Gulls while I was in the Navy, that is a smell I won't soon forget! One of the airwings EA-6B took a Gull in the leading edge of the wing. I was shock by the damage.

Tim

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