Bombing Accuracy

[Second Air Force]

We were peacefully on our way home from FTW today, cruising along at 7,500 feet.


I had just gotten a frequency change from Center when I saw and heard "SPLAT" on my windscreen.......


I must say that this is the first time a fellow aviator has managed to drop a payload on me in over twenty years of flying. I'm wondering if anyone else out there has been pooped on from on high.........

Scott

[RyanShort1]

Sure that's not a bug? Pretty common down here. I've seen 'em higher.

Ryan

[Second Air Force]

The photo isn't the greatest, but there aren't any insect pieces in there that we could find. I've been hit by the occasional bug higher up than that too (we got a pretty nice collection one evening coming home from Midland at 9000), but I'm pretty sure this is the digested remnants of bugs some avian swallowed.

S

[The Inspector]

Many years ago an ALASKA 737-200F freighter flying along in Alaska got hit on the Captains windshield with a King Salmon apparently dropped by a clumsy Bald Eagle. The maintenance guys painted a Salmon profile under the Captains slider and it was referred to until it left the fleet as 'The Salmon Thirty Salmon'.
The highest I've ever hit a bug was just above it's eyebrows.